Contents

1 Simulating the Past for Understanding the Present.

A Critical Review............................................................................................ 1

Juan A.

2 Multi-scale Agent-Based Simulation of Long-Term Dispersal

Processes: Towards a Sophisticated Simulation Model

of Hominin Dispersal.................................................................................. 141

Ingo J. Timm, Fabian Lorig, Ericson Holzchen and Christine Hertler

3 An Agent-Based Model of Resource Distribution

on Hunter-Gatherer Foraging Strategies: Clumped

Habitats Favor Lower Mobility, but Result in Higher

Foraging Returns........................................................................................ 159

Marco A. Janssen and Kim Hill

4 Testing Brantingham’s Neutral Model: The Effect of Spatial

Clustering on Stone Raw Material Procurement....................................... 175

Simen Oestmo, Marco A. Janssen and Curtis W. Marean

5 Population Spread and Cultural Transmission in Neolithic

Transitions.................................................................................................. 189

Joaquim Fort, Neus Isern, Antonieta Jerardino and Bernardo Rondelli

6 Modelling Routeways in a Landscape of Esker and Bog......................... 199

Yolande O’Brien and Stefan Bergh

7 Modelling Cultural Shift: Application to Processes

of Language Displacement......................................................................... 219

Neus Isern and Joaquim Fort

8 Pathways for Scale and Discipline Reconciliation:

Current Socio-Ecological Modelling Methodologies

to Explore and Reconstitute Human Prehistoric Dynamics.................... 233

Mehdi Saqalli and Tilman Baum

9 Simulating Land Use of Prehistoric Wetland Settlements:

Did Excessive Resource Use Necessitate a Highly Dynamic

Settlement System?.....................................................................................

Tilman Baum

10 Revisiting the Dynamics Between Two Ancient Japanese Descent Groups: What Happened from the Jomon

to the Yayoi Periods in Japan.................................................................... 281

Fumihiro Sakahira and Takao Terano

11 Cultural and Genetic Transmission in the Jomon-Yayoi Transition Examined in an Agent-Based Demographic

Simulation................................................................................................... 311

Naoko Matsumoto and Mariko Sasakura

12 Economic Sustainability in Relation to Demographic Decline of Celtic Agglomerations in Central Europe: Multiple-Scenario

Approach.................................................................................................... 335

Kamila Stekerova and Alzbeta Danielisova

13 ZambeziLand: A Canonical Theory and Agent-Based Model

of Polity Cycling in the Zambezi Plateau, Southern Africa.................... 359

Gary Bogle and Claudio Cioffi-Revilla

14 Personalities, Physiology, Institutions and Genetics:

Simulating Ancient Societies with Intelligent Virtual Agents.................. 377

Tomas Trescak, Anton Bogdanovych and Simeon Simoff