Demography modelling and simulation of the barbarian populations of the "Marcomannic" settlement structures of the Middle Danube region

Title:

Demography modelling and simulation of the barbarian populations of the "Marcomannic" settlement structures of the Middle Danube region

Creator:

Vlach, Marek

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:c329c896-53e4-475e-a6af-08df6e59e208
uuid:c329c896-53e4-475e-a6af-08df6e59e208

Subject:

archaeological demography, digital modelling and simulation, Germanic tribes, Marcomanni, Middle Danube region, and Roman Period

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

A comprehensive approach to certain structural problems and a wide array of scientific issues of both natural sciences and humanities should include methods of digital modelling of complex systems. Past human societies and their settlement structures represent in a certain point of view complex systems. Agent-based modelling (ABM) and simulation represents a methodological framework to construct digital models of studied contexts in order to test the viability of existing theoretical models in both qualitative and quantitative aspects. An explicitly formulated “artificial society” (e.g., Danielisová, Štekerová 2015) can be built on the basis of all available archaeological sources, proxy data, estimates and existing theoretical models in research of the Germanic society of the Middle Danube region (Moravia, W Slovakia – Záhorie region and Lower Austria to the north of the Danube). The main concern lies in the establishment of a digital model which would reflect the available archaeological knowledge and estimates about the Germanic settlement structure and possible demographic development from the 1st century AD up to the period of the Marcomannic wars. Similar attempts at archaeological demography certainly contain wide ranges of methodical issues, mostly due to the limited input data and known aspects of population dynamics from archaeological records, nevertheless, this attempt represents a pilot effort of the initial framework implementation phase designed to explore the basic demographic properties of the studied context.

Language:

Czech

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

Přehled výzkumů | 2018 Volume:59 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

Metadata only:

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