Une modélisation géographiquement explicite d’interaction culturelle. Dialectes crétois modernes, archéologie de l’âge du Bronze
This paper explores the way cultural traits are transmitted between individuals, and the degree to which this is affected by the location, size and configuration of human settlements, as well as other aspects of the intervening landscape. Drawing upon case studies from the large Greek island of Cere...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
2014-03-01
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| Series: | Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/nda/2373 |
| Summary: | This paper explores the way cultural traits are transmitted between individuals, and the degree to which this is affected by the location, size and configuration of human settlements, as well as other aspects of the intervening landscape. Drawing upon case studies from the large Greek island of Cere, we first consider dialectal variants of variants of common words used in over a hundred communities across the island during the late 1960s. A commonly-proposed ‘neutral’ expectation is that different people’s choices about wich cultural traits they adopt can be treated as effectively radom, and our starting point is therefore a model of trait adoption in wich the relative probability that any new trait is adopted is based purely on the existing relative frequency of a particular trait of the overall Cretan population.Many linguists further highlight ‘isolation by distance’ as a reason for patterns of regional variation in dialect and this too can be assessed relatively simply. We then go on to combine both assumptions, frequency dependence and distance-decay, in dynamic network model of dialectal variation, before finally exploring whether variable terrain and off-island access provides additional greater explanatory power. Having explored this issues via detailed modern population and dialectical datasets, it becomes possible to consider archaeological datasets from Bronze Age Crete, where the evidence is far patchier but similar questions of the factors affecting cultural variability across the island are of great interest. |
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| ISSN: | 0242-7702 2425-1941 |