Rethinking the role of Agent-Based Modeling in archaeology

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 41, Issue , 2016, Pages 283-298

  Cegielski, Wendy H ^a   Rogers, J Daniel ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

ABM; Agent Based Modeling; Archaeological methods; Computational modeling; Simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958242398     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2016.01.009     Document Type: Article

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