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The American Southwest, because of the high degree of preservation and the unparalleled chronological control, is a classic natural laboratory for the testing of schemes concerning the evolution of culture. This volume brings together the combined efforts of twenty-six physical and behavioral scientists from a number of different disciplines. Using non-traditional techniques and different models, they attempt to understand the underlying processes and the historical events that account for the evolution of prehistoric Southwestern societies.While specific southwestern data is used for the test cases, the contributors to the seminar have gone beyond both the stage of describing basic temporal sequences and of defining broad types of behavioral patters, such as trade or warfare. They have utilized many of the concepts and techniques that were pioneered or enhanced by Santa Fe Institute scientists for exploring different types of complex adaptive systems, thereby providing new perspectives on prehistory.
Complex adaptive systems --- Complex van adaptieve systemen --- Complexe de systèmes adaptatifs --- Complex adaptive systems. --- Adaptation (Biology) --- Archaeology --- Indians of North America --- Mathematical models. --- Methodology. --- Antiquities --- Computer simulation. --- Southwest, New --- Antiquities. --- Mathematical models --- Southwest [New ] --- Computer simulation --- Methodology --- Indians of North America - Southwest, New - Antiquities - Computer simulation. --- Archaeology - Southwest, New - Methodology.
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As part of the SFI series, this book presents the most up-to-date research in the study of human and primate societies, including recent advances in software and algorithms for modeling societies, and it is ideal for professionals in archaeology, cultural anthropology, primatology, or computer science.
Social evolution --- Social history --- Animal societies --- Social behavior in animals --- Mathematical models --- Computer simulation --- Computer simulation. --- Mathematical models.
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'Dynamics of Human and Primate Societies' presents the most up-to-date research in the study of human and primate societies, demonstrating recent advances in software and algorithms for modelling societies. It also addresses case studies that have applied agent-based modelling approaches in archaeology, cultural anthropology, primatology and sociology.
Social evolution --- Social history --- Animal societies --- Social behavior in animals --- Animal behavior --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- History --- Sociology --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Evolution --- Social change --- Mathematical models. --- Computer simulation. --- Social evolution - Mathematical models --- Social evolution - Computer simulation --- Social history - To 500 - Computer simulation --- Animal societies - Mathematical models --- Animal societies - Computer simulation. --- Social behavior in animals - Mathematical models --- Social behavior in animals - Computer simulation --- Social history - To 500 - Mathematical models
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Archaeology --- Cultural property --- Research --- Protection
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Emerging from a School of American Research, this work reviews the general status of archaeological knowledge in 9 key regions of the Southwest to examine broader questions of cultural development, which affected the Southwest as a whole, and to consider an overall conceptual model of the prehistoric Southwest after the advent of sedentism.
Indians of North America --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Antiquities. --- Southwest, New
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Indians of North America --- Pueblo Indians --- Antiquities --- Antiquities. --- Black Mesa (Navajo County and Apache County, Ariz.) --- Antiquities.
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Agent-based computational modeling is changing the face of social science. In Generative Social Science, Joshua Epstein argues that this powerful, novel technique permits the social sciences to meet a fundamentally new standard of explanation, in which one "grows" the phenomenon of interest in an artificial society of interacting agents: heterogeneous, boundedly rational actors, represented as mathematical or software objects. After elaborating this notion of generative explanation in a pair of overarching foundational chapters, Epstein illustrates it with examples chosen from such far-flung fields as archaeology, civil conflict, the evolution of norms, epidemiology, retirement economics, spatial games, and organizational adaptation. In elegant chapter preludes, he explains how these widely diverse modeling studies support his sweeping case for generative explanation. This book represents a powerful consolidation of Epstein's interdisciplinary research activities in the decade since the publication of his and Robert Axtell's landmark volume, Growing Artificial Societies. Beautifully illustrated, Generative Social Science includes a CD that contains animated movies of core model runs, and programs allowing users to easily change assumptions and explore models, making it an invaluable text for courses in modeling at all levels.
Social sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Computer simulation. --- Mathematical models.
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