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.

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...

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. .