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Forgotten Times and Spaces: New perspectives in paleoanthropological, paleoethnological and archeological studies
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SYSNO ASEP 0453937 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title Simulating archeological models: Perspectives in protohistory Author(s) Komoróczy, Balázs (ARUB-Q) RID, SAI, ORCID
Vlach, Marek (ARUB-Q) ORCID, SAISource Title Forgotten Times and Spaces: New perspectives in paleoanthropological, paleoethnological and archeological studies. - Brno : Archeologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. Brno : Masarykova Univerzita, 2015 / Sázelová S. ; Novák M. ; Mizerová A. - ISBN 978-80-7524-000-2 Pages s. 494-506 Number of pages 13 s. Number of pages 617 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country CZ - Czech Republic Keywords methodology ; agent based modelling ; complex systems ; non‐linear dynamics ; Protohistory Subject RIV AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology Institutional support ARUB-Q - RVO:68081758 DOI 10.5817/CZ.MUNI.M210-7781-2015-37 Annotation Simulating archeological models: Perspectives in protohistory. The process of model building is one of the fundamental means of scientific reasoning and assessment of theoretical constructs. Most of the theoretical models in social sciences (specifically in archeology) are formulated through the basic descriptive means of common language. Developments in IT during the last decades and its accessibility have made available various computing methods in archeological research. The paper aims to outline basic features of the method called agent-based modeling (ABM), which allows the building of digital models to simulate artificial societies or other studied complex phenomena of archeological interest. Such models may reveal the behavior of featured systemic components and their influence on system dynamics (e.g. population dynamics or emergence of system properties of social structure). Generally the aim of the described method is the study of systemic micro-level properties and their output in macro-scale pattern generation (structural behavior). Finally, the paper outlines the most recent applications of this method to study society and its trajectories of development within the Roman Period in the Middle Danube region. Workplace Institute of Archaeology (Brno) Contact Hedvika Břínková, brinkova@arub.cz, Tel.: +420 515 911 112 Year of Publishing 2017
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