Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling
Contenu
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.
Informations bibliographiques
juillet 2019, 231 Pages, Computational Social Sciences, Simulating the Past, Anglais
Springer Nature EN
978-3-030-12722-0