This volume of original chapters written by experts in the field offers a snapshot of how historical built spaces, past cultural landscapes, and archaeological distributions are currently being explored through computational social science.

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments1. Introduction,Andrew Bevan and Mark Lake2. Intensities, Interactions and Uncertainties: Some New Approaches to Archaeological Distributions, Andrew Bevan, Enrico Crema, Xiuzhen Li and Alessio Palmisano3. An Examination of Automated Archaeological Feature Recognition in Remotely Sensed Imagery, Kenneth Kvamme4. An Introduction to Integrative Distance Analysis (IDA), Terence Clarke5. Network Models and Archaeological Spaces, Ray Rivers, Carl Knappett, and Timothy Evans6. Multilevel Selection and the Evolution of Food Sharing in Fragmented Environments: A Spatially Explicit Model and its Implications for Early Stone Age Archaeology, L.S. Premo7. Stories of the Past or Science of the Future? Archaeology and Computational Social Science, Michael Barton8. The Potential and Limits of Optimal Path Analysis, Irmela Herzog9. Compute-Intensive GIS Visibility Analysis of the Settings of Prehistoric Stone Circles, Mark Lake and Damon Ortega10. Reconsidering the Concept of Visualscape: Recent Advances in Three-Dimensional Visibility Analysis, Eleftheria Paliou11. Formal and Informal Analysis of Rendered Space: The Basilica Portuense, Graeme Earl, Vito Porcelli, Constantinos Papadopoulos, Gareth Beale, Matthew Harrison, Hembo Pagi and Simon Keay12. Reproducible Data Analysis and the Open Source Paradigm in Archaeology, Benjamin DuckeIndexAbout the Editors/Contributors