We draw attention to differences in logistic least cost rationales that emphasize the practical conditions that push people toward optimization and social approaches, which emphasize the sociocultural conditions that can pull people away from optimization. To better incorporate the prosocial tendencies of people moving through lived landscapes, we develop a socially informed least cost approach that prioritizes social interactions at known sites without explicitly inputting those places asdestinations. To highlight the utility of this technique, we deploy the social approach in a case study of the South Road—an important movement corridor during the Chaco fluorescence (ca. AD 850-1150) in present-day northwestern New Mexico. Results show that a social approach produces travel corridors that more closely resemble the route of the South Road than corridors derived through a logistic approach. The results demonstrate the importance of considering traditionally non-optimal and socially informed motivations when modeling human movement and large-scale transportation in the past.

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从成本到电导：一种将社会电导纳入最低成本分析的技术


我们提请注意物流最低成本理论的差异，这些理论强调推动人们走向优化的实际条件和社会方法，这些理论强调可能使人们远离优化的社会文化条件。为了更好地结合人们在生活景观中移动的亲社会倾向，我们开发了一种基于社会知情的最低成本方法，该方法优先考虑已知地点的社交互动，而无需明确将这些地点输入为目的地。为了突出这种技术的实用性，我们在南路的案例研究中部署了社会方法——南路是今新墨西哥州西北部查科荧光期间（约公元 850-1150 年）的重要运动走廊。结果表明，与通过物流方法得出的走廊相比，社会方法产生的旅行走廊更类似于 South Road 的路线。结果表明，在过去对人类运动和大规模交通进行建模时，考虑传统上非最佳和社会知情动机的重要性。