Models: ‘Small and elegant’ or ‘complicated but realistic’?
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 12/07/2016

Theory driven and data driven models. Models that aim to emulate and models that aim to explain. Are these really two modelling paradigms or a gradient depending on the focus of different models? When do we use each type? How to struck a balance between generalist results and the need to validate the models against archaeological data?

Colin Wren