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  1. Grand challenges for the quantitative study of past movement systems in the twenty-first century

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, June 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  2. Correction: Lessons Learned: Creating Tutorials to Teach Agent-Based Modelling to Archaeologists

    Article • Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, January 2026, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  3. Lessons Learned: Creating Tutorials to Teach Agent-Based Modelling to Archaeologists

    Article • Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology, December 2025, Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  4. Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

    Article • Scientific Data, November 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  5. Correction to: Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long‑Term Perspective

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  6. Consumption Trends, Trading Patterns and Economic Development in Italy Across Centuries: Data Analysis of Roman Amphorae in a Long-Term Perspective

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  7. Road and Transport Networks

    Article • January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  8. UNA INTRODUCCIÓN A LA INVESTIGACIÓN DE REDES EN ARQUEOLOGÍA: ¿QUÉ ES Y POR QUÉ LA NECESITAMOS?

    Article • Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad de Granada, December 2023, Editorial de la Universidad de Granada

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  9. Anticipating the Next Wave of Archaeological Network Research

    Article • November 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  10. Introduction

    Article • November 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  11. Knowledge Networks

    Article • November 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  12. The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Network Research

    Article • November 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  13. Exploring economic integration of peasant settlements in Roman Central Spain (1st c. − 3rd c. AD)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, October 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  14. Network Science in Archaeology

    Article • April 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  15. Socio-economic impacts of the exposure to Roman ceramics in the inland Iron Age communities of the NW Iberian Peninsula: A quantitative approach

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  16. Trade dynamism in Roman Germany

    Article • PLOS One, January 2023, PLOS

    Tyler Franconi, Dr Tom Brughmans

  17. Copying of Economic Strategies in Eastern Mediterranean Inter-regional Tableware Trade

    Article • August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  18. Settlement Scale and Economic Networks in the Roman Empire

    Article • August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  19. Why Simulate Roman Economies?

    Article • August 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  20. Socio-Economic Impacts of the Exposure to Roman Ceramics in the Iron Age Communities of the Iberian Peninsula: A Quantitative Approach

    Article • January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  21. Sensitivity analysis in archaeological simulation: An application to the MERCURY model

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science Reports, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  22. Urbanization and Riverine Hinterlands: A Proposal for an Integrative High-Definition and Multi-Scalar Approach to Understanding Ancient Cities and their Dynamic Natural Resources

    Article • Journal of Urban Archaeology, July 2021, Brepols Publishers NV

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  23. A Study of the Centuries-Long Reliance on Local Ceramics in Jerash Through Full Quantification and Simulation

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  24. Networked medieval strongholds in Garhwal Himalaya, India

    Article • Antiquity, February 2021, Antiquity Publications

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  25. Tableware trade in the Roman East: Exploring cultural and economic transmission with agent-based modelling and approximate Bayesian computation

    Article • PLOS One, November 2020, PLOS

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  26. Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies: A Manifesto

    Article • Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, January 2019, Open Library of the Humanities

    Dr Tom Brughmans, Dr Katherine A Crawford

  27. Introducing visual neighbourhood configurations for total viewsheds

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  28. The case for computational modelling of the Roman economy: a reply to Van Oyen

    Article • Antiquity, September 2017, Antiquity Publications

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  29. Visibility Network Patterns and Methods for Studying Visual Relational Phenomena in Archeology

    Article • Frontiers in Digital Humanities, August 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  30. Exploring Transformations in Caribbean Indigenous Social Networks through Visibility Studies: the Case of Late Pre-Colonial Landscapes in East-Guadeloupe (French West Indies)

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  31. Roman bazaar or market economy? Explaining tableware distributions through computational modelling

    Article • Antiquity, April 2016, Antiquity Publications

    Prof. Jeroen Poblome, Dr Tom Brughmans

  32. Networks in Archaeology: Phenomena, Abstraction, Representation

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  33. Understanding Inter-settlement Visibility in Iron Age and Roman Southern Spain with Exponential Random Graph Models for Visibility Networks

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  34. Introducing exponential random graph models for visibility networks

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, September 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  35. Networks of networks: a citation network analysis of the adoption, use, and adaptation of formal network techniques in archaeology

    Article • Literary and Linguistic Computing, August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  36. ANCIENT GREEK NETWORKS - I. Malkin A Small Greek World. Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean. Pp. xx + 284, figs, maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Cased, £40, US$60. ISBN: 978-0-19-973481-8.

    Article • The Classical Review, March 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  37. Complex Networks in Archaeology: Urban Connectivity in Iron Age and Roman Southern Spain

    Article • Leonardo, June 2012, The MIT Press

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  38. Thinking Through Networks: A Review of Formal Network Methods in Archaeology

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Tom Brughmans

  39. Lessons Learned from the Uninformative Use of Network Science Techniques

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Tom Brughmans