Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling

In: Simulating the Past

In: Springer eBooks

In: Social Sciences

Abstract

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