SOCIEDADES ARTIFICIALES PARA EL ANÁLISIS DE PROCESOS SOCIALES EN LA PREHISTORIA

Abstract

Recently, researchers in Archaeology, Sociology and related disciplines have began to program computers in such a way that they seem to be able to reproduce the birth and death of social agents, their activities and their ways of interaction. This methodology is basic for Prehistoric Archaeology, whose objective, human behavior in the most ancient past, is out of observability by definition. Computer Simulation and artificial societies allow the representation of hypothetical modeling of what could have occurred in Prehistory. In this way, social analysis and hypotheses testing are made possible.