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Simulating Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds

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Editors:
  1. Juan A. Barceló

    1. Department of Prehistory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

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  2. Florencia Del Castillo

    1. Patagonia National Research Center (CENPAT) National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Puerto Madryn, Argentina

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  • Includes an introductory chapter covering the complete field of computer simulations of past societies, with an exhaustive, commented list of applications, chronologically arranged from the Paleolithic until Modern societies
  • Numerous case studies that help the reader to understand this approach in a new and radical new way
  • Detailed presentations of computer models that help the reader to apply computer methods of social simulation to ongoing research projects in history, archaeology and anthropology
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Computational Social Sciences (CSS)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Simulating the Past for Understanding the Present. A Critical Review

    • Juan A. Barceló, Florencia Del Castillo
    Pages 1-140

  3. Multi-scale Agent-Based Simulation of Long-Term Dispersal Processes: Towards a Sophisticated Simulation Model of Hominin Dispersal

    • Ingo J. Timm, Fabian Lorig, Ericson Hölzchen, Christine Hertler
    Pages 141-157

  4. An Agent-Based Model of Resource Distribution on Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies: Clumped Habitats Favor Lower Mobility, but Result in Higher Foraging Returns

    • Marco A. Janssen, Kim Hill
    Pages 159-174

  5. Testing Brantingham’s Neutral Model: The Effect of Spatial Clustering on Stone Raw Material Procurement

    • Simen Oestmo, Marco A. Janssen, Curtis W. Marean
    Pages 175-188

  6. Population Spread and Cultural Transmission in Neolithic Transitions

    • Joaquim Fort, Neus Isern, Antonieta Jerardino, Bernardo Rondelli
    Pages 189-197

  7. Modelling Routeways in a Landscape of Esker and Bog

    • Yolande O’Brien, Stefan Bergh
    Pages 199-217

  8. Modelling Cultural Shift: Application to Processes of Language Displacement

    • Neus Isern, Joaquim Fort
    Pages 219-232

  9. Pathways for Scale and Discipline Reconciliation: Current Socio-Ecological Modelling Methodologies to Explore and Reconstitute Human Prehistoric Dynamics

    • Mehdi Saqalli, Tilman Baum
    Pages 233-254

  10. Simulating Land Use of Prehistoric Wetland Settlements: Did Excessive Resource Use Necessitate a Highly Dynamic Settlement System?

    • Tilman Baum
    Pages 255-279

  11. Revisiting the Dynamics Between Two Ancient Japanese Descent Groups:

    • Fumihiro Sakahira, Takao Terano
    Pages 281-310

  12. Cultural and Genetic Transmission in the Jomon–Yayoi Transition Examined in an Agent-Based Demographic Simulation

    • Naoko Matsumoto, Mariko Sasakura
    Pages 311-334

  13. Economic Sustainability in Relation to Demographic Decline of Celtic Agglomerations in Central Europe: Multiple-Scenario Approach

    • Kamila Štekerová, Alžběta Danielisová
    Pages 335-357

  14. ZambeziLand: A Canonical Theory and Agent-Based Model of Polity Cycling in the Zambezi Plateau, Southern Africa

    • Gary Bogle, Claudio Cioffi-Revilla
    Pages 359-375

  15. Personalities, Physiology, Institutions and Genetics: Simulating Ancient Societies with Intelligent Virtual Agents

    • Tomas Trescak, Anton Bogdanovych, Simeon Simoff
    Pages 377-404
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This book presents a unique selection of fully reviewed, extended papers originally presented at the Social Simulation Conference 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Only papers on the simulation of historical processes have been selected, the aim being to present theories and methods of computer simulation that can be relevant to understanding the past. Applications range from the Paleolithic and the origins of social life up to the Roman Empire and Early Modern societies. Case studies from Europe, America, Africa and Asia have been selected for publication. The extensive introduction offers a thorough review of the computer simulation of social dynamics in past societies as a means of understanding human history. This book will be of great interest to researchers in the social sciences, archaeology, evolutionary anthropology, and social history.

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“It offers a synthesis of agent-based modeling to date, provides multiple well-developed case studies, and contributes to the literature on formal models in archaeology by demonstrating the utility of simulation. … From Barceló and del Castillo’s encyclopedic introduction, to each of the well-developed case studies, this volume adds to a growing field and will be useful for archaeologists and computer scientists interested in prehistory.” (Stefani Crabtree, JASSS The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Vol. 20 (2), March, 2017)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Prehistory, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain

    Juan A. Barceló

  • Patagonia National Research Center (CENPAT) National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Puerto Madryn, Argentina

    Florencia Del Castillo

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