Models of Mesopotamian landscapes
Subtitle: how small-scale processes contributed to the growth of early civilizations
By: edited by T.J. Wilkinson, McGuire Gibson, Magnus Widell
Series: BAR international series -- 2552; BAR international series -- 2552.
Publisher: Archaeopress; British Archaeological Reports; British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oxford, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781407311739
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Civilization; Human settlements; History; Ancient Civilization; Computer simulation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Background, research design and structure of the modeling program; title: Physical geography, environmental change and the role of water / T.J. Wilkinson & Carrie Hritz; title: Settlement archeology of Mesopotamia / T.J. Wilkinson, Jason A. Ur, Carrie Hritz; title: Land use of the model communities / Magnus Widell, Carrie Hritz, Jason A. Ur & T.J. Wilkinson; title: Staple production, cultivation and sedentary life : model input data / Magnus Widell, Benjamin Studevent-Hickman, Jonathan Tenney, Jacob Lauinger, Daniel Mahoney and Tate Paulette; title: Consumption and storage in the Bronze Age / Tate Paulette; title: Household & village in early Mesopotamia / Magnus Widell, McGuire Gibson, T.J. Wilkinson, Benjamin Studevent-Hickman & Jonathan Tenney; title: Pastoral systems and economies of mobility / Tate Paulette; title: The external economy : networks and trade / Scott Branting, T.J. Wilkinson, John Christiansen, Magnus Widell, Carrie Hritz, Jason Ur, Benjamin Studevent-Hickman, Mark Altaweel; title: The modeling framework / John H. Christiansen; title: Output from the agent-based modeling program / T.J. Wilkinson, John Christiansen, Mark Altaweel, Magnus Widell; title: Modeling nomad-settlement interactions / Mark Altaweel and Tate Paulette; title: Simulating the effects of salinization on irrigation agriculture in southern Mesopotamia / Mark Altaweel; title: The application of an entropy maximising model to the rise of urbanism / Mark Altaweel.