Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology

ISBN-13: 9780367478582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 252 str.

Dries Daems

Opis

Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology turns to complex systems thinking in search of a suitable framework to explore social complexity in Archaeology. It is intended to be a valuable resource for students and scholars in the field of archaeology and related disciplines such as history, anthropology and sociology.

Recenzje

"In summary, I would recommend this book to anyone wishing to have an up-to-date and interesting discussion of societal complexity, complex theory and social systems approaches. The author has successfully taken a very difficult topic and highlighted its key tenets in a largely accessible format, whilst also advocating for valuable methods to apply for processing the different range of archaeological evidence we are left with through which we must reconstruct past social complexity." - Clare Burke, Archaeologia Austriaca

Spis treści

1.Introduction; 2.The History of Complexity in Archaeology; 3.Conceptualising Social Complexity; 4.Social Complexity Trajectories in Anatolia; 5.Conclusions

O autorze

Dries Daems is Assistant Professor in Settlement Archaeology and Digital Archaeology at Middle East Technical University. He is also affiliated with the Sagalassos Project at University of Leuven. His research interests include social complexity, agent-based modelling, material studies, and human­environment interactions.