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slides to accompany talk at the SAA annual meeting at Honolulu, on modeling coupled social-natural systems
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SIMULATION AS DEFORMATION
Or, the role of agent based modeling in historical
archaeology
Shawn Graham, Carleton University
@electricarchaeo“2”cc: t1ck, Flickr
A dark art, indeed.
“HUG?” cc, ~bassoonbuddy247, DeviantArt
Ein Augur erklärt Numa Pompilius nach dem Orakel des Vogelfluges zum König, Radierung von Bernhard Rode 1768-69, Wikicommons
Saul and the Witch of Endor, William Mount, 1807-1868. Wikicommons.
Practical Necromancy: as easy as Lego.
‘Classic Romero Zombies’ Cc Pedro Vezini, Flickr
Dismissals•Not useful for literate societies
•Tautological
•Not a very good analogy, is it?
Screencapture, Monty Python & The Holy Grail
Digital Zombies Shed Light
http://wallpoper.com/wallpaper/pink-floyd-407858
Parsimony & the single modeler
I’m a one-man band. My models need to be simple
in their aims in their outputs
When Digital Romans Go Bad
http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies/article/viewArticle/172
…bit of garbage in there. It’s actually ‘2’.
Romanization & Information Flow
Roman Hispania, Road Network - Wikicommons
Smaller, more constrained models have bigger impacts
…at least in the humanities…
From entanglements to
flows
Hodder, Ian. Entangled: An archaeology of the relationships between humans and things. Wiley-Blackwell 2012. Pg 181, Figure 9.2 Entanglements of clay at Catalhoyuk.
Evolving Amphorae
Small models, perfectly formed
ABM need to be small for historical
archaeology
Difficulty of teasing out the key
relationships in complex models
Human-thing relationships
infinitely extensible
resistanceOne issue, one model
Part of a modular approach
Thank you
Shawn Graham, Carleton University@electricarchaeo