The Archaeology of Artificial Societies

Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation in Archaeology (Advances in Geographic Information Science) by Gabriel Wurzer, Kerstin Kowarik and Hans Reschreiter (eds.)

Archaeology has been historically reluctant to embrace the subject of agent-based simulation, since it was seen as being used to "re-enact" and "visualize" possible scenarios for a wider (generally non-scientific)...

Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis in Archaeological Computational Modeling (Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology) by Marieka Brouwer Burg, Hans Peeters and William A. Lovis (eds.)

Understanding Artificial Anasazi

A replication and analysis of the Artificial Anasazi model is presented. It is shown that the success of replicating historical data is based on two parameters that adjust the carrying capacity of the Long House Valley. Compared to population estimates equal to the carrying capacity the specific agent behavior contributes only a modest improvement of the model to fit the archaeological records....

Ali Kosh Lady and her Artificially Modified Head: An Appraisal

We had the opportunity to examine the cranium of a young woman found at the well-known Neolithic site of Ali Koshon the Deh Luran plain in southwestern Iran. It has previously been claimed that her head shows traces of modification,a practice which can be termed as either cultural or artificial cranial modification. Here, we describe several macroscopiccharacteristics of the modified crania and...

household studies in complex societies miriam müller

The ninth annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Post-doctoral Seminar, with the title “Household Studies in Complex Societies: (Micro) Archaeological and Textual Approaches,” organized by Miriam Müller, was held on Friday, March 15, and Saturday, March 16, 2013, in Breasted Hall. Over two days, the papers and discussions focused on household archaeology, a topic that has generated con...