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Agent-Based Modelling and Archaeological Complexity

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Managing Complexity

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This paper presents a brief overview of social simulation in the field of Archaeology. It has been conducted from an agent-based modelling focus, a very interesting and valid methodology for modelling prehistoric societies. The second part of this work presents an application of this methodology in a specific model that analyses the emergence of ethnicity in a prehistoric society.

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    All the experiments were conducted with the following parameters: N = 50; η = 2; k = 8; r = 8; pdiff = 0.8, pmut = 0.05; S0 = 0.4 and ρ = 0.5.

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Acknowledgement

The authors acknowledge support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Project CSD2010-00034 (SimulPast CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010) and by the Regional Government of Castile and Leon (Spain) Project VA056A12-2.

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  1. INSISOC. E.I. Industriales, Universidad de Valladolid, Pso del Cauce s/n, 47011, Valladolid, Spain

    David J. Poza

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Higher Polytechnic School, University of Burgos, C/Villadiego, S/N, 09001, Burgos, Spain

    Ricardo del Olmo

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    Cesáreo Hernández

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    Adolfo López-Paredes

  3. INSISOC, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    José M. Pérez-Ríos

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Poza, D., del Olmo, R. (2014). Agent-Based Modelling and Archaeological Complexity. In: Hernández, C., López-Paredes, A., Pérez-Ríos, J. (eds) Managing Complexity. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04705-8_36

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