Drivers of Late Pleistocene human survival and dispersal: an agent-based modeling and machine learning approach

AR Vahdati, JD Weissmann, A Timmermann… - Quaternary Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Understanding Late Pleistocene human dispersals from Africa requires
understanding a multifaceted problem with factors varying in space and time, such as …

Mapping Early Pleistocene environments and the availability of plant food as a potential driver of early Homo presence in the Guadix-Baza Basin (Spain)

Y Altolaguirre, M Schulz, L Gibert, AA Bruch - Journal of Human Evolution, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Guadix-Baza Basin, in SE Spain, harbors hominin fossils and lithic artifacts
dated to ca. 1.4–1.3 Ma, representing the first hominin habitat in the Iberian Peninsula and …

State of the art in paleoenvironment mapping for modeling applications in archeology—summary, conclusions, and future directions from the PaleoMaps Workshop

C Willmes, K Niedziółka, B Serbe, SB Grimm, D Groß… - Quaternary, 2020 - mdpi.com
In this report, we present the contributions, outcomes, ideas, discussions and conclusions
obtained at the PaleoMaps Workshop 2019, that took place at the Institute of Geography of …

Linking environmental changes with human occupations between 900 and 400 ka in Western Europe

MH Moncel, A Landais, V Lebreton… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Human occupation in Europe strongly fluctuated over the Quaternary. Archaeological
records suggest an intermittent human occupation in Western Europe between 900 and 500 …

A Least Cost Path Model for hominin dispersal routes out of the East African Rift region (Ethiopia) into the Levant

A Beyin, J Hall, CA Day - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
The state of our knowledge concerning the geographic routes through which hominins
spread out of Africa remains incomplete. The Nile basin (Northern Route) and the Strait of …

The case of Trlica TRL11–10 (Montenegro): Implications for possible early hominin dispersals into the Balkans in the middle of the Early Pleistocene

IA Vislobokova, AK Agadzhanyan, AV Lopatin - Quaternary International, 2020 - Elsevier
Problems of dispersals of early hominins into Europe are widely discussed. In the Early
Pleistocene, the dispersal of mammals and humans from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe …

An agent-based model for exploring the combined effects of social and demographic changes on the concentration and hierarchy of rural settlement patterns in North …

C Tannier, R Cura, S Leturcq, E Zadora-Rio - Journal of Anthropological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Rural settlement patterns in North-Western Europe in 800 CE were scattered and
impermanent. By 1200 they had become much more concentrated and enduring. Although …

Introduction: History of Stone Age Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Framework for Hominin Evolution in Africa

A Beyin, DK Wright - Handbook of Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa …, 2023 - Springer
Today, there is a broad consensus on an African beginning of the human story as confirmed
by the fossil and archaeological evidence accumulating from the continent. But, before the …

[HTML][HTML] A literature review on the usage of agent-based modelling to study policies for managing international migration

G De Luca, TJ Lampoltshammer, S Parven, J Scholz - Social Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
This literature review is dedicated to the subject of agent-based modelling for the system of
international migration, and of the modelling of policies that are known to aid in its …

Simulating the past for understanding the present. A critical review

JA Barceló, F Del Castillo - Simulating prehistoric and ancient worlds, 2016 - Springer
This introductory essay aims to introduce the chapters in the book presenting some aspects
of the theoretical and conceptual framework necessary to consider the advantages computer …