Towards residential choice models in archaeology
The project at a glance
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Start date:03 Jan 2017
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Duration in months:48
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Funding:Uni
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Principal Investigator(s):Geoffrey CARUSO
About
Defining the location of a home as the center of live constitutes always a substantial individual life choice. Even more importantly those individual decision accumulate and give a spatial structure to society. General trends of those residential choices characterize society in general by giving information about daily lives, mobility, economy, social system etc. Interestingly, archaeology provides a long-term insight into those choices with information related to the concept of settlement patterns. The current project is focused on studying explanatory models of settlement patterns as settlement choice models. The project includes descriptive statistics of settlement patterns of the Stone Age settlement sites in the North Eastern Europe, inductive models for dealing for lacking data and Agent-Based model for explaining empirical data and inductive models as choice models.
Project team
- Geoffrey CARUSO, PI
Organisation and Partners
- Department of Geography and Spatial Planning
- Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE)
Keywords
- Residential
- Choice
- Archaeology