Spatial relationships among entities across a range of scales are fundamental in many of the social sciences, not least in human geography, physical geography, and archaeology. However, space has received a surprisingly uneven treatment; in archaeology, for example, spatial analysis only really came to the fore in the 1960s and 70s, through the influence of the ‘New Geography’ (Haggett, 1965; Chorley & Haggett, 1967). David Clarke (1968, 1977), one of the principal exponents of spatial analysis in New Archaeology, described three levels of resolution in spatial archaeology: the micro level, the semi-micro or meso level and the macro level, the last of these representing relationships between sites (Clarke, 1977, p. 13). Yet, despite the clear implication that these levels should articulate, many subsequent studies have tended to aim at just one level.
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Evans, T., Knappett, C., Rivers, R. (2009). Using Statistical Physics to Understand Relational Space: A Case Study from Mediterranean Prehistory. In: Lane, D., Pumain, D., van der Leeuw, S.E., West, G. (eds) Complexity Perspectives in Innovation and Social Change. Methodos Series, vol 7. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9663-1_18
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