From individuals to settlement patterns.

Thesis

This thesis describes and contextualises the Population & Cemetery Simulator (PCS), which represents agent-based demographic modelling software that can be used to model living populations based on archaeological and historical data as well as their cemeteries. The data used by the PCS are demographic in nature, e.g. age and sex data generated by osteoarchaeologists from excavated cemeteries or historical demographic data. This thesis seeks to provide a methodological foundation for model...

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Authors: Duering, A

• Alternative title: Bridging the gap between the living and the dead in early medieval populations using an agent-based demographic model
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Archaeological Demography; Early Medieval Archaeology; Agent-Based Modelling; Palaeodemography; Medieval Demographics; Demographic Modelling; Medieval History; Physical Anthropology; Medieval Archaeology
• Subjects: Archaeology, Medieval; Physical anthropology; Bones; Early Medieval Archaeology; Agent-Based Modelling; Palaeodemography; Osteoarchaeology; Demographic Modelling; Anglo-Saxon Archaeology; Anthropology; History; Demography; Archaeology; Migration Period; Modeling