The Social Reactors Project team has set up project page at The Digital Archaeological Record ( www.tdar.org ) to archive project datasets. Interested researchers can now download datasets analyzed in project publications for use in their own research. All you need to do is set up a tDAR account. We...

The Social Reactors Project team has created a short (5 min.) video to accompany our recent publication in Journal of Archaeological Science. Check it out to learn more about our approach and recent research results.

In a newly-published paper in Journal of Archaeological Science , the Social Reactors Project team show that settlement scaling theory provides new tools for investigating economic change. The case study involves the impact of the Inka expansion for living standards among the Wanka people of Peru, ca. 1450 CE. Using...

In a series of blog posts , Social Reactors Project collaborator Mike Smith discusses the basic ideas behind our approach, the strands of social science research that support it, and the social and spatial continuities between villages and cities. These posts are intended to introduce our project to other archaeologists.

Social Reactors Project researcher Jack Hanson has a new web site focusing on ancient Roman cities. Check it out at: https://urbanismandtheromanworld.wordpress.com/

As a graduate student who thinks and processes information in an outline format, Kintigh et al’s 2014 PNAS article concerning grand challenges for archaeology helped me gain an understanding of the state of archaeology as senior scholars in the field see it. Based on the results of a crowd-sourcing report...

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