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Geographical and social networks form a broad and fashionable yet important field of research in archaeology and geography. Networks are tightly connected to the mathematical graph theory. This chapter starts by discussing the concepts of network and transportation systems, before we focus on transportation networks. On a local, level pathways are constructed using least cost path analysis and reconstructed using pattern recognition. The combination of the constructed theoretical and reconstructed empirical model serves not only to set up an integrative model of the transport system but also to establish knowledge about social behaviour. The regional level does not deal with the exact location of the pathways but rather with the connection between places. Methods from graph theory are used as both empirical and theoretical models of the structure of transport system. Finally, the characterisation of both networks and elements in networks is addressed, serving as a basis for the comparison of networks.

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Nakoinz, O., Knitter, D. (2016). Networks. In: Modelling Human Behaviour in Landscapes. Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Modelling . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29538-1_9

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