Integrating Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Introducing Qualitative and Social Science Factors in Archaeological Modelling: Necessity and Relevance (Marc Vander Linden, Mehdi Saqalli)....Pages 1-14 O Tempora O Mores: Building an Epistemological Procedure for Modeling the Socio-anthropological Factors of Rural Neolithic Socio-ecological Systems: Stakes, Choices, Hypotheses, and Constraints (Mehdi Saqalli, Melio Saenz, Mahamadou Belem, Laurent Lespez, Samuel Thiriot)....Pages 15-54 From Culture Difference to a Measure of Ethnogenesis: The Limits of Archaeological Inquiry (Juan A. Barceló, Florencia Del Castillo, Laura Mameli, Franceso J. Miguel, Xavier Vilà)....Pages 55-89 Modeling Niche Construction in Neolithic Europe (R. Alexander Bentley, Michael J. O’Brien)....Pages 91-108 What Can a Multi-agent System Tell Us About the Bantu Expansion 3,000 Years Ago? (Florent Le Néchet, Christophe Coupé, Hélène Mathian, Lena Sanders)....Pages 109-135 From Past to Present: The Deep History of Kinship (Dwight W. Read)....Pages 137-162 Modeling the Relational Structure of Ancient Societies through the Chaîne opératoire: The Late Chalcolithic Societies of the Southern Levant as a Case Study (Valentine Roux)....Pages 163-184 Ethnoarchaeology-Based Modelling to Investigate Economic Transformations and Land-Use Change in the Alpine Uplands (Francesco Carrer, Graeme Sarson, Andrew Baggaley, Anvar Shukurov, Diego E. Angelucci)....Pages 185-216 Trowels, Processors and Misunderstandings: Concluding Thoughts (Mehdi Saqalli, Marc Vander Linden)....Pages 217-223 Back Matter ....Pages 225-231