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Emeritus Professor Ray Rivers

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Distinguished Research Fellow
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7830r.rivers Website

 
 
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Location

 

509Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Knappett:2008,
author = {Knappett, C and Evans, TS and Rivers, RJ and Knappett, C and Evans, TS and Rivers, RJ},
journal = {Antiquity},
pages = {1009--1024},
title = {Modelling Maritime Interaction In The Aegean Bronze Age},
url = {http://155.198.210.128/~time/networks/arch/AntiquityFinalSubmissionFigsAdded080506.pdf},
volume = {82},
year = {2008}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The authors raise spatial analysis to a new level of sophistication – and insight – in proposing a mathematical model of imperfect optimisation to describe maritime networks. This model encodes, metaphorically, the notion of gravitational attraction between objects in space. The space in which this interaction occurs is the southern Aegean in the Middle Bronze Age, and the objects some of the main 34 sites we know about. The gravitational potential, more sophisticated than in Newtonian physics, is interpreted as a social potential whose equilibria, sampled statistically, determine networks with settlements of particular sizes and links of particular strengths. The model can be tweaked by giving different relative importance to the cultivation of local resources or to trade, and to show what happens when a member of the network suddenly disappears.
AU  - Knappett,C
AU  - Evans,TS
AU  - Rivers,RJ
AU  - Knappett,C
AU  - Evans,TS
AU  - Rivers,RJ
EP  - 1024
PY  - 2008///
SP  - 1009
TI  - Modelling Maritime Interaction In The Aegean Bronze Age
T2  - Antiquity
UR  - http://155.198.210.128/~time/networks/arch/AntiquityFinalSubmissionFigsAdded080506.pdf
UR  - http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/082/318/default.htm
VL  - 82
ER  -
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