Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Saqalli, Mehdi (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Vander Linden, Marc (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Simulating the Past,
• Subjects: Social sciences-Data processing.; Social sciences-Computer programs.; Computer simulation.; Archaeology.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Ethnology.; Computational Social Sciences.; Simulation and Modeling.; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building.; Social Anthropology.
• Physical Description: VIII, 231 p. 26 illus., 16 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783030127237
• ISSN: 2662-3145
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12723-7

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.