How Should We Study Prehistoric Economy?

a 2019

How Should We Study Prehistoric Economy?

TÓTH, Peter

Základní údaje

Originální název

How Should We Study Prehistoric Economy?

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TÓTH, Peter

Vydání

25th Annual Meeting of European Association of Archaeologists, Bern, Switzerland, 2019

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Konferenční abstrakt

Obor

60102 Archaeology

Stát vydavatele

Švýcarsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

economy; human behavior; spatial-temporal modelling

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 13. 2. 2020 10:54, Mgr. Renata Macholdová

Anotace

V originále

According to Ian Hodder (1982) there are three basic approaches in analyses of human economic behavior in the past: substantivism, formalism, and social exchange. The substantivists tends to focus on relationships between people and on the different types of exchange mechanisms such as reciprocity, redistribution, and market systems. The formalism focuses on analytical techniques that would allow particular modes of distribution to be identified (e.g. regression analyses), assuming that universal concepts of economic theory- scarcity, maximization, surplus- are applicable in economic anthropology. Finally, social exchange studies, mixing a both of both formalism and substativism, involves social strategies, and functional interrelationships, such as the availability of resources, and control over production. Formal mathematical approaches to the study of prehistoric exchange are of value in that they allow a better description of functional relationships. In this presentation, I discuss spatiotemporal modeling as a method of choice able to interconnect social and economic processes of larger territories. Spatial-temporal modeling relates to problems where we want to analyze and predict how something varies over space and/or time. Such problems can exist in widely different spatial and temporal scales. It is based on a gradual transformation of relative dating of archaeological sites into a temporal scale. As a result, each site has assigned a temporal uncertainty in a predefined temporal block. The transformed datasets can be used for more advanced analysis, such as an investigation of cultural, social and economic processes as well as a comparison of settlement dynamics by interpolation of temporal uncertainty. This background can be also used in subsequent agent-based modeling. For archaeologists, the combination of spatiotemporal modeling and agent-based modeling can be very useful, because we can simulate and observe human behavior in changing social, economic, environmental and cultural conditions across space and time.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/0930/2018, interní kód MU

Název: Archeologické terénní prospekce, exkavace, dokumentace a muzejní prezentace VIII

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Archeologické terénní prospekce, exkavace, dokumentace a muzejní prezentace VIII, DO R. 2020_Kategorie A - Specifický výzkum - Studentské výzkumné projekty

Citovat

TÓTH, Peter. How Should We Study Prehistoric Economy? In 25th Annual Meeting of European Association of Archaeologists, Bern, Switzerland. 2019.

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