An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology : : Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence / / Shawn Graham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Graham, Shawn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Digital Archaeology: Documenting the Anthropocene ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Tables --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; CHAPTER 1 Imagine a Network --; CHAPTER 2 Reanimating Networks --; CHAPTER 3 Add Agents and Stir --; CHAPTER 4 Archaeogaming --; CHAPTER 5 The Fun Is in the Building --; CHAPTER 6 Artificial Intelligence --; Conclusion: Enchantment Is a Remembering --; Afterword: Guidelines for Developing Your Own Digital Archaeology --; Appendices --; Appendix A Tasks for Golems – Building an ABM --; Appendix B Pot Trade Model Code --; Appendix C Information Diffusion on a Network --; Appendix D Golems in the City --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789207873; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789207873?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Shawn Graham.

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.