Carl Knappett is Walter Graham/Homer Thompson Professor of Aegean Prehistory at the University of Toronto.

"The reader should come away from this book with a new appreciation for network thinking and for the complex relationships between objects (artifacts and assemblages) and things. In a practical sense, network thinking provides new ways of looking at the development of Bronze Age pottery and the spread of Minoan material culture and identity across the Aegean. As Knappett indicates ... it is a solid foundation for the future." --Michael Deal, Mouseion: Journal of the Classical Association of Canada

"Carl Knappett's An Archaeology of Interaction sets the agenda for archaeological studies of networks. This volume traverses different theoretical approaches with astonishing breadth making it an important resource for archaeologists interested in applying a network perspective in their work, as well as for those more generally interested in contemporary material culture studies."--Barbara Mills, University of Arizona

"Carl Knappett's book represents a milestone in the study of archaeological distribution patterns. Network analysis has in recent years become highly influential in the study of past human interaction as represented by material culture. Knappett shows, through the skilful use of a range of case-studies and theoretical standpoints, how the network approach to material culture can shed new and sometimes unexpected light on many aspects of interactions in the ancient past."--Anthony Harding, University of Exeter