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Agent-Based Modelling and Archaeological Complexity

Authors : David J. Poza, Ricardo del Olmo

Published in: Managing Complexity

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Abstract

This paper presents a brief overview of social simulation in the field of Archaeology. It has been conducted from an agent-based modelling focus, a very interesting and valid methodology for modelling prehistoric societies. The second part of this work presents an application of this methodology in a specific model that analyses the emergence of ethnicity in a prehistoric society.

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Footnotes
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All the experiments were conducted with the following parameters: N = 50; η = 2; k = 8; r = 8; pdiff = 0.8, pmut = 0.05; S0 = 0.4 and ρ = 0.5.
 
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Metadata
Title
Agent-Based Modelling and Archaeological Complexity
Authors
David J. Poza
Ricardo del Olmo
Copyright Year
2014
Book
Managing Complexity

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-04704-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-04705-8

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04705-8_36