Overview
- 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
Part of the book series: Computational Social Sciences (CSS)
Part of the book sub series: Simulating the Past (SIPA)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Reviews
“The volume is most likely to appeal to archaeological modellers who will find interesting case studies with a somewhat wider disciplinary outlook. The aim of generating mutual understanding is, however, commendable, and those non-modellers who venture to pick up a book about modelling and persevere will be afforded valuable insights in the process and merits of striving to integrate qualitative and social science factors into archaeological models.” (Daniël van Helden,Antiquity, Vol. 95, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Agronomist and doctor in farming systems analysis, Mehdi Saqalli works on rural past and present societies through the use of modelling tools, particularly multi-agent tools, for the understanding of localized dynamics combining socio-anthropological and agro-environmental factors in the future of these societies. Field sites concern several present-time tropical and temperate areas on development issues but also past Neolithic societies in Europe and the Mediterranean area. The aim is to formalize this complexity by articulating spatial, temporal and socio-political scales through the use of dynamic spatialized socio-geographical models.
Marc Vander Linden is a specialist in European Later European prehistory and currently holds a temporary lectureship at the University of Cambridge, where he teaches archaeological methods. His research interests include spatial and temporal variability of material culture, early farming systems, demography, development-led archaeolology, and the use of quantitative and modelling methods. He has run fieldwork in Belgium, Syria, Great Britain, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling
Editors: Mehdi Saqalli, Marc Vander Linden
Series Title: Computational Social Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12723-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12722-0Published: 15 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12725-1Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12723-7Published: 04 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2509-9574
Series E-ISSN: 2509-9582
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 231
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computational Social Sciences, Simulation and Modeling, Archaeology, Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building, Social Anthropology