The Connected Past Artefactual Intelligence 2930 September 2021 Aarhus University The Connected Past Artefactual Intelligence 2930 September 2021 Aarhus University 2 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Campus Aarhus. Photo: Lars Kruse, AU Foto. Book of abstracts 3 Table of Contents Outline..............................................................................................................................................................5 Programme.................................................................................... 4 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Rodrigo Loyola: Pre-Columbian Interaction Networks and Circulation of Obsidian Objects in the Atacama Desert - CANCELLED....................................................................................................... 24 Molly Masterson: Plantiness: Book of abstracts 5 Outline Artefactual Intelligence Computational models used by archaeologists are becoming increasingly complex. We create and tackle ever larger datasets, include more parameters and make machines learn by themselves. Recent approaches to network theory in archaeology, and the 6 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Programme Wednesday 29 September 9:30-10:00 Coffee and tea 10:00-12:00 Session 1 One Ring to Rule Them All? Appearance and Identity of Early Nordic Bronze Age Women (Louise Felding) Reassembling Identity: Analyzing the Network of Elite Identity Constructi Book of abstracts 7 Mapping the Growth and Shape of Archaeology through its Documentary Networks (Anthony Sinclair) The Role of Objects in Cultural Evolution: Insights from a Simulation Model (Eugenio Bortolini, Enrico Crema and Mark Lake) New Methods for the Steady-State Analysis of Complex Agent 8 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Thursday 30 September 9:30-10:00 Coffee and tea 10:00-12:00 Session 3 The Role of the Roman Army in Cult Sites in the Hauran (Southern Syria): A Regional Religious Network Study in the Roman Empire (Francesca Mazzilli) Multi-Scalar Festival Network Agents Book of abstracts 9 13:00-14:40 Session 4 Rethinking how Public Space Promotes Interaction within Historic Pueblo Settlements: A Network and Agent-Based Modelling Approach (Katherine Crawford, Matt Peeples and Tom Brughmans) The Coins that Transformed Eurasia: Modelling Islamicate Heritage in Itin 10 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Keynote Solving Inverse Problems in Archaeology: Bayesian Belief Networks for Causal Modelling Juan A. Barceló (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) When the causal mechanism human behavior in the past- is known, historical why-questions can be framed in t Book of abstracts 11 Abstracts The Role of Objects in Cultural Evolution: Insights from a Simulation Model Eugenio Bortolini (University of Bologna), Enrico Crema (University of Cambridge) and Mark Lake (University College London) This paper addresses the conference theme by examining the role of 12 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 New Methods for the Steady-State Analysis of Complex Agent-Based Models Chico Camargo (Exeter University) Among all tools used to understand collective human behaviour, few tools have been as successful as agent-based models (ABMs). These models have bee Book of abstracts 13 Exploring Classical Archaeology Literature Using Network Analysis and Rule Mining Michele Coscia (IT University Copenhagen) Starting from a bipartite classification network of objects and classification criteria in our case taken from Archäologische Bibliographie 1956-2007 14 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Things and People, People and Things: Comparing, Combining and Juxtaposing Early Neolithic Networks of the Near East Fiona Coward (Bournemouth University) The recognition that material culture is a key element of social interaction in human societies for Book of abstracts 15 Rethinking how Public Space Promotes Interaction within Historic Pueblo Settlements: A Network and Agent-Based Modelling Approach Katherine A. Crawford (Arizona State University), Matt Peeples (Arizona State University) and Tom Brughmans (Aarhus University) Public space and i 16 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Past Mobility Approached by Network Analysis Applied to Strontium Isotope Results (87Sr/86Sr) Sarah Dalle (Ghent University, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) The CRUMBEL project studies Belgian archaeological cremation sites dating from the Late Neolithic to Book of abstracts 17 Reassembling identity: Analyzing the Network of Elite Identity Construction in Burials of the Late Bronze Age Aline Deicke (Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz) The late Urnfield period shows a re-emergence of rich burials that as a precursor to the Hallstatt princes 18 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 One Ring to Rule Them All? Appearance and Identity of Early Nordic Bronze Age Women Louise Felding (Aarhus University) Through a multi-scalar approach using network analyses this paper investigates identity through a comparative study of 270 female gende Book of abstracts 19 Flowscapes and Effectancy of Etruscan Rivers Mariachiara Franceschini (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) Recent historical, anthropological, and ecological contributions on the cultural status and the materiality of water, as well as its influence on modern sociopolitical 20 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 The Role of the Roman Army in the Spatial Dissemination of the Cult of Asclepius: A Spatial Network Analysis Tomáš Glomb (University of Bergen) The paper introduces the two-year research project Favorable Conditions of the Spread of the Cult of Asclepius Book of abstracts 21 Of Texts and Meanings: Challenges of Lemmatization of Incomplete Epigraphic Texts Petra Hermankova and Vojtech Kase (Aarhus University) Inscriptions provide direct and often quite vivid insight into the past communities. The inscribed monuments come from various social groups 22 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 The Coins that Transformed Eurasia: Modelling Islamicate Heritage in Itinerant Assemblages Sara Ann Knutson (University of California, Berkeley) This project explores how archaeologists can think through cross-cultural contacts, social relations, and eco Book of abstracts 23 Artificial and Artifactual Intelligence and the Development of Archaeological Theory Rachael Lane (The University of Sydney) The late Russian archaeologist and theoretician, Leo Klejn argued that artificial or computer intelligence could solve issues of incoherency in theoret 24 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Pre-Columbian Interaction Networks and Circulation of Obsidian Objects in the Atacama Desert - CANCELLED Rodrigo Loyola (Université Paris Ouest, Universidad Católica Del Norte) We study the circulation of obsidian artifacts among the pre-Columbian societ Book of abstracts 25 Plantiness: Re-evaluating Plant-Human Relationships in Prehistoric Britain Molly Masterson (University of Oxford) Out of the material turn, new theories regarding materiality and thingness have emerged and caused archaeologists to reconsider how we interpret cultural material 26 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 The Role of the Roman Army in Cult Sites in the Hauran (Southern Syria): A Regional Religious Network Study in the Roman Empire Francesca Mazzilli (University of Bergen) Based on the concept of religion as continuously in the making, discussed especially Book of abstracts 27 Networks of Houses and Networks of Objects: Creating and Interpreting Socio-Material Networks at Çatalhöyük Camilla Mazzucato (Stanford University) This paper explores the potential of network analysis to disentangle patterns of social relations that emerged within large earl 28 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Connected Making: Relational Approaches to 4th-7th century AD Mediterranean Production Processes Hallie G. Meredith (Washington State University) Interdisciplinary approaches deconstruct ontological distinctions between humans and their creations whilst Book of abstracts 29 An Information Theoretic Approach to Mycenaean Pottery Datasets Henry Price (Imperial College London), Paula Gheorghiade (University of Toronto), Ray Rivers (Imperial College London), Tim Evans (Imperial College London) and Vaiva Vasiliauskaite (ETH, Zurich) Archaeological dat 30 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Network Imputation for Missing Dating Data in Archaeological Artefacts Antonio Rivero Ostoic (Aarhus University) and Srebrenka Letina (Linköping University) Both archaeology and history seek to reconstruct the past based on the available information from Book of abstracts 31 Geography and Scale in Early Christian and Late Roman Property Structure as Reflected in the Liber Pontificalis Eivind Heldaas Seland (University of Bergen) The collection of papal biographies known as the Liber Pontificalis (Book of Popes) contains the lives (biographies) of 32 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Mapping the Growth and Shape of Archaeology through its Documentary Networks Anthony Sinclair (University of Liverpool) Archaeology is an increasingly multidisciplinary form of enquiry, connecting specialists and techniques of enquiry across the arts, so Book of abstracts 33 Mapping Similarity in Epigraphic Monuments across Space and Time: Evaluating the Potential of Network Analysis Adela Sobotkova, Petra Hermankova, Vojtech Kase and Antonio Rivero Ostoic (Aarhus University) Archaeological raison detre is to study past human behavior by monitori 34 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Possibilities of the Network Concept Application in Research of the Barbarian Societies of the Middle Danube Borderlands during the Roman Period Marek Vlach and Balázs Komoróczy (Czech Academy of Sciences) Large part of the long-term archaeological resea Book of abstracts 35 Multi-Scalar Festival Network Agents in the Hellenistic and Roman World: Regions, Kingdoms, and Empire Adam Wiznura, Tom Britton and Robin van Vliet (University of Groningen) In this paper we will present a joint project (NWO and OIKOS Anchoring Innovation) that envisions the 36 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Organisers Tom Brughmans Aarhus University Phone: +45 8716 2546 E-mail: t.b@cas.au.dk Lieve Donnellan The University of Melbourne Phone: +61 383442179 E-mail: lieve.donnellan@unimelb.edu.au Rubina Raja Aarhus University Phone: +45 2718 8390 E-mail: rubi Book of abstracts 37 Registration Registration for the conference is necessary. Deadline is 1 September. Register through this link: https://events.au.dk/connectedpast2021/registration Conference Website Also visit the conference website, where you will find information on: Travel to Aarhus Get 38 The Connected Past 29-30 September 2021 Participating in Aarhus Venue The conference will take place in: The Museum of Ancient Art and Archaeology (Antikmuseet, building 1414) Aarhus University Victor Albecks Vej 3 8000 Aarhus C Getting to the venue: From the current special exhibition in the Book of abstracts Photographs: Please note that we will take photographs during the conference, which will be used for archival, non-commercial or educational purposes as well as reporting to funding agencies. If you do not want us to use photos in which you are depicted, please contact Eva Mortens The Connected Past, 2930 September 2021 Organisers: Tom Brughmans (UrbNet, Aarhus University), Lieve Donnellan (The University of Melbourne), Rubina Raja (UrbNet, Aarhus University) and Søren M. Sindbæk (UrbNet, Aarhus University) Book of Abstracts Editors: Eva Mortensen and the organisers Back co