Mehdi Saqalli & Marc Vander Linden (ed.). 2019. Integrating qualitative and social science factors in archaeological modelling. Cham: Springer; 978-3-030-12723-7 ebook €58.84.

Abstract

Integrating qualitative and social science factors in archaeological modelling aims to contribute to bridging the gap between the subdiscipline of archaeological computational modelling and wider archaeology. Agent-based modelling (ABM: a modelling approach based on simulating many autonomous agents to observe the aggregate results of their behaviour) largely acts as the lens through which the overarching problem of the incorporation of social and qualitative factors into computational models is investigated. The details may therefore be unique to ABM, but wider conceptual considerations apply to all computational modelling.