Simulating Resource Exploitation Strategies in Iron Age to Hellenistic Communities in Southwest Anatolia Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
Abstract
In this paper, we present SAGAscape, an agent-based model of resource exploitation and subsistence strategies to explore the human impact of hilltop settlements on the natural environment in the study area of Sagalassos (southwest Turkey) during the Iron Age to Hellenistic period.
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Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
Dries Daems
Assistant Professor in Spatial Digital Humanities
I am Assistant Professor in Spatial Digital Humanities at VU Amsterdam.I got my PhD in Archaeology from KU Leuven. My research interests include social complexity, urbanism, connectivity and information exchange, artisanal production, and human-environment interactions through computational modeling and pottery studies. My core research focus lies in the Hellenistic Mediterranean.