Simulating Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds

Simulating the Human Past for Understanding the Present. A critical review. - Multi-Scale Agent-Based Simulation of Long-Term Dispersal Processes: Towards a Sophisticated Simulation Model of Hominin Dispersal. - An Agent-Based Model of Resource Distribution on Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies: Clumped Habitats Favor Lower Mobility, but Result in Higher Foraging Returns. - Testing Brantingham s Neutral Model: The Effect of Spatial Clustering on Stone Raw Material Procurement. - Population Spread and Cultural Transmission in Neolithic Transitions. - Modelling Routeways in a Landscape of Esker and Bog. - Modelling Cultural Shift: Application to Processes of Language Displacement. - Pathways for Scale and Discipline Reconciliation: Current Sociological Modelling Methodologies to Explore and Reconstitute Human Prehistoric Dynamics. - Simulating Land Use of Prehistoric Wetland Settlements: Did Excessive Resource Use Necessitate a Highly Dynamic Settlement System? . - Revisiting the DynamicsBetween two Ancient Japanese Descent Groups: What happened from the Jomon to the Yayoi Periods in Japan. - Cultural and Genetic Transmission in the Jomon-Yayoi Transition Examined in Agent-Based Demographic Simulation. - Economic Sustainability in Relation to Demographic Decline of Celtic Agglomerations in Central Europe Multiple-Scenario Approach. - Zambeziland: A Canonical Theory and Agent-Based Model of Polity Cycling in the Zambezi Plateau, Southern Africa. - Personalities, Physiology, Institutions and Genetics: Simulating Ancient Societies with Intelligent Virtual Agents.