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Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based Modeling
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Traditional narrative explanations of prehistory have become increasingly difficult to operationalize as models and to test against archaeological data. As such models become more sophisticated and complex, they also become less amenable to objective evaluation with anthropological data. Nor is it possible to experiment with living or prehistoric human beings or societies. Agentbased modeling offers intriguing possibilities for overcoming the experimental limitations of archaeology by representing the behavior of culturally relevant agents on landscapes. Manipulating the behavior of artificial agents on such landscapes allows us to, as it were, "rewind the tape" of sociocultural history and to experimentally examine the relative contributions of internal and external factors to sociocultural evolution (Gumerman and Kohler in press). Agent-based modeling allows the creation of variable resource (or other) landscapes that can be wholly imaginary or that can capture important aspects of real-world situations. These landscapes are populated with heterogeneous agents. Each agent is endowed with various attributes (e.g., life span, vision, movement capabilities, nutritional requirements, consumption and storage capacities) in order to replicate important features of individuals or relevant social units such as households, lineages, clans, and villages. A set of anthropologically plausible rules defines the ways in which agents interact with the environment and with one another. Alt…
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- Authors
- Dean, J. S., & Gumerman, G. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Arizona (US)
- Venue
- Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 2000-02-10
- OpenAlex
- W1515173830
- Cited by
- 215
- References
- 8
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 64.50
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Keywords
- Ancestral Puebloans, social evolution, agent-based modeling, experimental archaeology, model validation, resource landscapes
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