Imperial College London
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DrTimEvans

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Senior Lecturer
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 7837t.evans Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Mrs Graziela De Nadai-Sowrey +44 (0)20 7594 7843

 
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Location

 

609Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inbook{Rivers:2023:oxfordhb/9780198854265.013.10,
author = {Rivers, R and Paliou, E and Evans, T},
booktitle = {The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research},
doi = {oxfordhb/9780198854265.013.10},
editor = {Brughmans and Mills and Munson and Peeples},
pages = {186--199},
publisher = {Oxford University Press},
title = {Gravity and Maximum Entropy Models},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198854265.013.10},
year = {2023}
}
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TY  - CHAP
AB  - Gravity models are a class of quantitative models that can be used for describing the spatial characteristics of social interactions, providing a realization of Tobler’s “law” of geography that “near things are more related than distant things.” In archaeology, they are particularly suited for describing historic and prehistoric “exchange” and “settlement formation.” Although, quantitatively, they were originally little more than mimicry of Newtonian gravitation, they arise naturally in some forms of economic modeling and as the “most likely” outcomes (MaxEnt) from limited knowledge. We discuss several of their key applications to archaeological data.
AU  - Rivers,R
AU  - Paliou,E
AU  - Evans,T
DO  - oxfordhb/9780198854265.013.10
EP  - 199
PB  - Oxford University Press
PY  - 2023///
SN  - 9780198854265
SP  - 186
TI  - Gravity and Maximum Entropy Models
T1  - The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198854265.013.10
UR  - https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.rivers
ER  -
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