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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Bibliographic Details
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
Table of 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 chaîne opératoire approach: the chalcolithic southern levant as a case study
  • Conclusion. .

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