An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology : Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence
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| Title: | An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology : Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence |
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| 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. |
| Authors: | Shawn Graham |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Archaeology--Computer simulation, Archaeology--Data processing, Archaeology--Technological innovations |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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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| ISBN: | 9781789207866 9781789208719 9781789207873 9781807589653 |
