Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling

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Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling

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edited by Mehdi Saqalli, Marc Vander Linden

Contributor

• Saqalli, Mehdi
• Vander Linden, Marc

Editor

• Saqalli, Mehdi
• Vander Linden, Marc

Subject

• Ethnology
• Social sciences—Data processing
• Archaeology
• Social sciences—Computer programs
• Computer simulation

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

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• Simulating the Past,

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non fiction

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dictionaries

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• Simulating the Past,
• Springer eBooks.