The Impact on Mobility of Regional Variability in Rates of Environmental Change: An Agent-Based Simulation Approach

Summary

I use agent-based computer simulation to evaluate the impact of regional scale variability in rates of environmental change on residential and logistical mobility. Previous regional case studies and simulation work suggest that high variability in regional rates of environmental change (in shoreline displacement, for example) should favour settlement strategies that reduce residential mobility and rely on logistical mobility. Those strategies should select longer-term residential sites that are environmentally relatively stable at a very local scale, and are surrounded by more rapidly changing landscapes that provide logistical access to a variety of resources. I will test whether this pattern holds up when variability of the rate of change in more than one environmental variable is tracked.

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• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 20931