Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling

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 fo...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Saqalli, Mehdi (Editor), Vander Linden, Marc (Editor)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Simulating the Past,
Subjects:
Sociology > Methodology.
Computer simulation.
Archaeology.
System theory.
Ethnology.
Sociological Methods.
Computer Modelling.
Complex Systems.
Sociocultural Anthropology.
Online Access:Full-text access
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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.
Physical Description:VIII, 231 p. 26 illus., 16 illus. in color. online resource.
ISBN:9783030127237
ISSN:2662-3153
DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-12723-7

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