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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Computational archaeology"”.
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Self-adapting simulated artificial societies
Agent-Based Models (ABM) are computational models that utilize autonomous agents to interact and adapt to the environments in which they occupy. They are used in fields ranging from Economics to Ecology. More recently, ABM are being used in Computational Archaeology to aid in explaining the complex …
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Modelling Past Land Routes in Archaeology: A ‘Roman Roads’ Theoretical and Methodological Rethinking
… past land routes has become common-place in archaeology. Despite their long use, movement models remain largely theoretically unjustified and methodologically immature. Without addressing these issues, outcomes from movement models will continue to lack a theoretical connection to the land …
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Ecological niche models of early rice agriculture in prehistoric Japan
The introduction of rice and millet agriculture into Japan during the 1st millennium BCE was a significant turning point in Japanese history that eventually led to the emergence of early states in the archipelago. Rice and millet agriculture was brought in by migrant communities from the Korean …
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Across mountains and deserts: Patterns of movement and interaction in fourth and third millennium BC south-east Iran
… legacy data, ethnohistorical data and a novel computational approach to modelling movement I reconsider where and how people, goods and ideas may have moved and what characterised the changing landscapes of interaction between 4000-2000 BC. To that end, four interlocking analyses are presented. …
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The Archaeology of Travel in Greater Nicoya (500 BC – AD 1250)
Sometime before 500 BC, a dynamic interaction and exchange network developed among the villages and hamlets in western Nicaragua and northwestern Costa Rica. Traveling across land and canoeing or rafting over the large freshwater lakes and rivers, these peoples voyaged for many hours to trade goods …