Integrating qualitative and social science factors in archaeological modelling / Mehdi Saqalli, Marc Vander Linden, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Saqalli, Mehdi, editor.

Vander Linden, Marc, editor.

Series:

Computational social sciences

Computational social sciences. Simulating the past

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Archaeology--Methodology.

Archaeology.

Physical Description:

viii, 231 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2019]

Summary:

This book covers the methodological, epistemological and practical issues of integrating qualitative and socio-anthropological factors into archaeological modeling. This text fills the gap between conceptual modeling (which usually relies on narratives describing the life of a past community) and formalized/computer-based modeling which are usually environmentally-determined. Methods combining both environmental and social issues through niche and agent-based modeling are presented. These methods help to translate data from paleo-environmental and archaeological society life cycles (such as climate and landscape changes) into the local spatial scale. The epistemological discussions will appeal to readers as well as the resilience socio-anthropological factors provide facing climatic fluctuations. Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling will appeal to students and researchers in the field. Features the integration of socio-anthropological factors (such as inheritance or locality) into conceptual modeling; Contains several examples of formalization case studies; each one describing a method dealing with socio-anthropological factors; Includes an epistemological analysis of the way factors are integrated and/or formalized for reducing the gap between environmentally-deterministic and socio-anthropological-formalized modelling.

Contents:

Introduction

O tempora O mores : Building an epistemological procedure for modeling socio-anthropological factors: stakes, choices, hypotheses and constraints

From culture difference to a measure of ethnogenesis

Modeling niche construction in Neolithic Europe

A new reading of the French Bronze Age using data from development-led archaeology: Bronze Age survey database (DatABronze)

What can a MAS tell us about the Bantu migrations 3000 years ago?

The evolutionary transition from biologically to culturally based social systems: Qualitative modeling issues

Data models, connectivity between sites and the chaï¿1/2ine opï¿1/2eratoire approach: the chalcolithic southern levant as a case study

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Integrating qualitative and social science factors in archaeological modelling.

ISBN:

3030127222

9783030127220

OCLC:

1082185372

Publisher Number:

99981980520