Of Animal Husbandry and Food Production—A First Step towards a Modular Agent-Based Modelling Platform for Socio-Ecological Dynamics

Günther, Gerrit; Clemen, Thomas; Duttmann, Rainer; Schütt, Brigitta; Knitter, Daniel

doi:10.3390/land10121366

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“…The abundance of grains and the fertility of the area were described by ancient geographers and historians (Sommerey, 2008;Pirson and Zimmermann, 2014). Recent studies, however, suggest that Pergamon's demand for grain, at least in the Roman Imperial Period, could not be covered without imports or environmental modifications (e.g., agricultural terracing) (Kobes, 1999;Günther et al, 2021;Laabs and Knitter, 2021).…”

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Mid- to Late Holocene geomorphodynamics in a long-term settled mountain catchment in the Pergamon micro-region, western Turkey

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From 300 BC to AD 300, the city of Pergamon underwent a profound transformation that impacted the rural settlement patterns and the concomitant geomorphodynamics. We present a geoarchaeological study in a long-term settled catchment in the Pergamon micro-region to disentangle the Holocene geomorphodynamics and triggering factors, for example, climate change and human activity. The analyses of eight radiocarbon-dated sediment profiles from the Tekkedere alluvial fan and its catchment indicate four principal sedimentation phases. Phase 1 (ca. 6.2 to 5–4 ka) is dominated by the floodplain aggradation of the receiving Bakırçay River, which is followed by the formation of floodplain soils (phase 2). Substantial geomorphodynamic changes occurred around 4 ka (phase 3), when the edge of the floodplain was buried by fan sediments of the tributary Tekkedere creek. This is attributed to supraregional aridization and rapid climate change events, superimposed by the onset of local human activities. Repeated cycles of coarse- and fine-textured fan sediments with age inversions after ca. 3.8 ka and valley infills younger than 1300 yr BP indicate the strong erosion and redeposition of sediments in phase 4. These increased geomorphodynamics may coincide with the changing settlement pattern and thus reflect human–environment interactions.

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Mid- to Late Holocene geomorphodynamics in a long-term settled mountain catchment in the Pergamon micro-region, western Turkey

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“…-Animales: dinámica de poblaciones bajo influencia humana (moRRison y allen, 2017); dinámica de poblaciones de animales domésticos (GüntheR et al, 2021); comportamiento de rebaño, forrajeo y trashumancia (GüntheR et al, 2021;RoGeRs, 2013).…”

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El lugar de la simulación social en arqueología

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2023

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Se presenta una revisión epistemológica de la simulación social en arqueología, delimitándola como práctica, método y como rama de la arqueología. Como práctica, se posiciona la simulación social entre otros tipos de aplicaciones intensivas de tecnologías digitales en humanidades y ciencias sociales. Como método, la definimos como una forma de modelización matemática que contiene mecanismos, sobre todo sociales, y pide soluciones numéricas. Presentamos brevemente las características de la simulación social, incluyendo el papel central de la modelización basada en agentes. Finalmente, contextualizamos el lugar de la simulación social en arqueología, ofreciendo una breve revisión de ejemplos de aplicación. This article presents an epistemological review of social simulation in archaeology, delimiting it as a practice, method and branch thereof. As a practice, social simulation is positioned amongst other intensive applications of digital technologies to the humanities and social sciences. As a method, we define it as a form of mathematical modelling that contains mechanisms, especially social ones, and which thus demands numerical solutions. We briefly present the characteristics of social simulation, including the central role of agent-based modelling. Finally, we contextualize the place of social simulation within archaeology, offering a brief review of applied examples.

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“…After the Attalid kingdom bequeathed Pergamon to Rome in the second century BCE, the micro-region underwent a profound transformation characterized by population growth, doubling of the urban area, a vigorous public building program, a change of settlement structure, and demilitarization (Laabs and Knitter, 2021; Ludwig, 2023; Pirson, 2017, 2020; Wulf, 1994; Zimmermann, 2011). This transformation increased the intensity of human impacts on land use both in and around the city and its villages (Günther et al, 2021; Laabs and Knitter, 2021). Beyond, sediment archives from the micro-region indicate local-scale changing geomorphodynamics during the Middle and Late Holocene (Schneider et al, 2013, 2014, 2015; Seeliger et al, 2019; Yang et al, 2023), roughly corresponding to the fluctuations in hydroclimate, vegetation, and settlement activities in the micro-region and its neighboring areas (Becker et al, 2020).…”

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Holocene geomorphodynamics of a rural catchment in the Pergamon micro-region (eastern Mediterranean)

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The Pergamon micro-region (western Türkiye) has experienced several phases of increased geomorphodynamics during the Holocene. However, the role of local–regional human activities during a transformation between Hellenism and the Roman Imperial period and supra-regional climate fluctuations is still under discussion. Five sediment profiles from the alluvial fan of the rural Deliktaş catchment are analyzed and radiocarbon-dated to provide a sedimentological record covering the Holocene. Our results indicate seven phases of changing sediment dynamics. Five Holocene cycles of coarse- and fine-textured fan sediment deposition covered the paleochannel deposits of the Çaylak creek, and the floodplain sediments of the receiving Geyikli river which aggraded toward the piedmont during the Mid-Holocene. The landscape became stable on the Deliktaş fan and Geyikli floodplain at least ca. 4–3.4 cal ka BP as indicated by paleosols. These paleosols were again buried by fan sediments marking the first phase of accelerated geomorphodynamics during the Late Holocene. Both the local onset of human activities and the regional Mid-Holocene aridization with rapid climate changes play a role. The increased number of archeological sites and high human pressure on the environment during the Hellenistic–Roman transformation in the Deliktaş area and Pergamon micro-region were hypothesized to contribute to a phase of increased geomorphodynamic activity during the last 2.5 ka. This, however, is less apparent in our record. Our study emphasizes the importance of both, the climatic system and rural-urban cultural history, on landscape development, suggesting potential responses of locally diverse geomorphodynamics on regional-scale transformation in the eastern Mediterranean.

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Of Animal Husbandry and Food Production—A First Step towards a Modular Agent-Based Modelling Platform for Socio-Ecological Dynamics

Cited by 5 publications

References 88 publications

Mid- to Late Holocene geomorphodynamics in a long-term settled mountain catchment in the Pergamon micro-region, western Turkey

Mid- to Late Holocene geomorphodynamics in a long-term settled mountain catchment in the Pergamon micro-region, western Turkey

El lugar de la simulación social en arqueología

Holocene geomorphodynamics of a rural catchment in the Pergamon micro-region (eastern Mediterranean)

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