The project aims to analyse the social structure and relationships within the late Iron Age society and to study theprocess of cultural collapse in Central Europe at the end of late La Tene period. For the first time in we intend to employ the approaches of the agent based social modelling, a method being already successfully applied by archaeologists abroad. By its application on the complex society living in the late Iron Age oppida and within their hinterlands a detailed model of the economic, social and political interactions will be developed and tested, while being firmly based on authentic archaeological and environmental record. The collapse model will be based on current relevant hypotheses. Essentially the project aims to demonstrate the approaches and objective advantages of the social simulations in archaeology, whose methodology will be developed, introduced and published. Publication of the project results will contribute notably to the international discussion concerning the collapse and cultural change phenomena and will also ofer an interpretation of the development at the end of the Iron Age in Bohemia.
Team
Alžběta Danielisová - ARUP Prague
Richard Cimler - FIM UHK, Hradec Králové
Tomáš Machálek - FIM UHK, Hradec Králové (2012)
Hana Tomášková - FIM UHK. Hradec Králové (2014)
Jan Procházka - FIM UHK. Hradec Králové (2014)