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Briz i Godino, Ivan Santos Martín, José Ignacio Galán Ordax, José Manuel Caro Saiz, Jorge Álvarez, Myrian Zurro, Débora 2016-02-22T09:57:32Z 2016-02-22T09:57:32Z 2014-06 1072-5369 http://hdl.handle.net/10259/3935 10.1007/s10816-013-9194-3 This paper presents the theoretical basis and first results of an agent-based model (ABM) computer simulation that is being developed to explore cooperation in hunter–gatherer societies. Specifically, we focus here on Yamana, a hunter-fisher-gatherer society that inhabited the islands of the southernmost part of Tierra del Fuego (Argentina–Chile). Ethnographical and archaeological evidence suggests the existence of sporadic aggregation events, triggered by a public call through smoke signals of an extraordinary confluence of resources under unforeseeable circumstances in time and space (a beached whale or an exceptional accumulation of fish after a low tide, for example). During these aggregation events, the different social units involved used to develop and improve production, distribution and consumption processes in a collective way. This paper attempts to analyse the social dynamics that explain cooperative behaviour and resource-sharing during aggregation events using an agent-based model of indirect reciprocity. In brief, agents make their decisions based on the success of the public strategies of other agents. Fitness depends on the resource captured and the social capital exchanged in aggregation events, modified by the agent’s reputation. Our computational results identify the relative importance of resources with respect to social benefits and the ease in detecting—and hence punishing—a defector as key factors to promote and sustain cooperative behaviour among population Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (projects CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 SimulPast-CSD2010-00034 and HAR2009-06996) as well as from the Argentine Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (project PIP-0706) and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (project GR7846). application/pdf eng Springer Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 2014, V. 21, n. 2, p. 343-363 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10816-013-9194-3 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/CSD2010-00034 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN/HAR2009-06996 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Argentine Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas/PIP-0706 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research/GR7846 ABM Cooperation Computer simulation Yamana Ethnoarchaeology Industrial management Economics Gestión de empresas Economía Social cooperation and resource management dynamics among late hunter-fisher-gatherer societies in Tierra del Fuego (South America) info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess