An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology : Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence (Digital Archaeology: Documenting the Anthropocene)

Graham, Shawn

Berghahn Books（2020/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 210 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781789207866
• DDC分類 930.1028

Full Description

The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the 'just-so' stories they tell about the past. It requires a formalization of the story so that it can be represented as a simulation; researchers are then able to explore the unintended consequences or emergent outcomes of stories about the past. Agent-based models are one end of a spectrum that, at the opposite side, ends with video games. This volume explores this spectrum in the context of Roman archaeology, addressing the strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities of a formalized approach to computation and archaeogaming.

Contents

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Imagine a Network

Chapter 2. Reanimating Networks

Chapter 3. Add Agents and Stir

Chapter 4. Archaeogaming

Chapter 5. The Fun Is in the Building

Chapter 6. Artificial Intelligence

Conclusion: Enchantment is Remembering

Afterword: Guidelines for Developing Your Own Digital Archaeology

Appendices

    Appendix A: Tasks for Golems - Building an ABM

    Appendix B: Pot Trade Model Code

    Appendix C: Information Diffusion on a Network

    Appendix D: Golems in the City

References

Index