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- Author: Shawn Graham
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Year: 2020
- Pages: 210
- ISBN: 9781789207873
- ISBN-10: 1789207878
- ISBN-13: 9781789207873
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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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.
- Author: Shawn Graham
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Year: 2020
- Pages: 210
- ISBN: 9781789207873
- ISBN-10: 1789207878
- ISBN-13: 9781789207873
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
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.
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