Open archaeology: Weak Ties on Old Roads: Inscribed Stopping-Places and Complex Networks in the Eastern Desert of Graeco-Roman Egypt

Hackley, Laurel Darcy; Gates-Foster, Jennifer; Redon, Bérangère

Weak Ties on Old Roads: Inscribed Stopping-Places and Complex Networks in the Eastern Desert of Graeco-Roman Egypt / Hackley, Laurel Darcy (CC BY)

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Title:: Open archaeology

Publication:: Berlin: De Gruyter

Note:: Open Access; Namensnennung 4.0 International

Scope:: Online-Ressource

ISSN:: 2300-6560

ZDB-ID:: 2861463-X

VÖBB-Katalog:: 35283928

Keywords:: Zeitschrift

Classification:: Geschichte

Collection:: Geschichte

Copyright:: Rights reserved

Accessibility:: Free Access

Title:: Open archaeology

Publication:: Berlin: De Gruyter

Note:: Open Access; Namensnennung 4.0 International

Scope:: Online-Ressource

ISSN:: 2300-6560

ZDB-ID:: 2861463-X

VÖBB-Katalog:: 35283928

Keywords:: Zeitschrift

Classification:: Geschichte

Collection:: Geschichte

Copyright:: Rights reserved

Accessibility:: Free Access

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Author:: Hackley, Laurel Darcy; Gates-Foster, Jennifer; Redon, Bérangère

Title:: Weak Ties on Old Roads: Inscribed Stopping-Places and Complex Networks in the Eastern Desert of Graeco-Roman Egypt

Publication:: Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025

Language:: English

Information:: Abstract: This article argues that the landscape attributes of a network are an influential factor in the network’s formation and function. By this, we mean that the realities of terrain and environment affect both physical and social networks in ways that can be productively incorporated into network analyses. Using two case studies from the sites of Buweib and the Paneion of the Wadi Minayh in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, we illustrate how landscape performs as an actor in the networks of the Graeco-Roman period, influencing the location of network “weak-tie” nodes and functioning as a medium of communication that, through practices of landscape marking, allows information to be exchanged between travelers, across language and cultural barriers, and even across millennia. These inscribed stopping places act as vibrant spaces of exchange in the desert by exercising an influence on how people interact physically and conceptually with the landscape.

Scope:: Online-Ressource

Note:: Open Access; Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet

Keywords:: Eastern Desert ; archaeology ; network ; Egypt ; graffiti ; cult

Classification:: Geschichte; Sonstiges

URN:: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2503260600130.810038816552

Collection:: Geschichte; Sonstiges

Copyright:: CC BY

Accessibility:: Free Access

Author:: Hackley, Laurel Darcy; Gates-Foster, Jennifer; Redon, Bérangère

Title:: Weak Ties on Old Roads: Inscribed Stopping-Places and Complex Networks in the Eastern Desert of Graeco-Roman Egypt

Publication:: Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025

Language:: English

Information:: Abstract: This article argues that the landscape attributes of a network are an influential factor in the network’s formation and function. By this, we mean that the realities of terrain and environment affect both physical and social networks in ways that can be productively incorporated into network analyses. Using two case studies from the sites of Buweib and the Paneion of the Wadi Minayh in the Eastern Desert of Egypt, we illustrate how landscape performs as an actor in the networks of the Graeco-Roman period, influencing the location of network “weak-tie” nodes and functioning as a medium of communication that, through practices of landscape marking, allows information to be exchanged between travelers, across language and cultural barriers, and even across millennia. These inscribed stopping places act as vibrant spaces of exchange in the desert by exercising an influence on how people interact physically and conceptually with the landscape.

Scope:: Online-Ressource

Note:: Open Access; Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet

Keywords:: Eastern Desert ; archaeology ; network ; Egypt ; graffiti ; cult

Classification:: Geschichte; Sonstiges

URN:: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2503260600130.810038816552

Collection:: Geschichte; Sonstiges

Copyright:: CC BY

Accessibility:: Free Access

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