id Url Resource template Resource class Title Creator Subject Description Publisher Contributor Date Type Format Identifier Language Relation Coverage Rights Alternative Title Abstract Date Created Date Issued Date Modified Medium Is Replaced By Replaces Requires Is Part Of Has Part Is Referenced By References Spatial Coverage Temporal Coverage Access Rights Bibliographic Citation License Rights Holder Cited by Cites Editor List of editors Status Doi Identifier Isbn Issn Issue Number of pages Number of volumes Pages Short title Uri Volume Name Surname Homepage Funded by Account Member Status Tag Number Current Location Is Shown At Is Shown By Europeana Rights Europeana Type Part of Is supported by Is supplied by Latitude Longitude Lat/long Has format Operating systems In series 10319 https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/10319 Academic Article bibo:AcademicArticle Artificial societies and cognitive archaeology Doran, Jim 1996 fra https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 This paper describes an approach to the study and understanding of social processes which has recently become prominent: systematic experimentation with "artificial societies" created on computers. The contribution that this new research tool can make to a "cognitive" archaeology, is considered. It is particularly asked how artificial societies techniques may be used to enhance our understanding of the role played by rationality and by collettive belief and misbelief systems, including religious belief systems, in the initial emergente of certain types of social complexity. Experimental work discussed aims to explore the relevant insights of Paul Mellars and of Roy Rappaport. One particular set of computer based experiments demonstrates how, in certain circumstances, social groups with some of the characteristics of "cults" may arise, with long term benefit to their individuals involved. https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/2002 1231–1245 http://www.archcalc.cnr.it/journal/id.php?id=228 7 https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/RHRSNK93/item-list