RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Social cooperation and resource management dynamics among late hunter-fisher-gatherer societies in Tierra del Fuego (South America)
A1 Briz i Godino, Ivan
A1 Santos Martín, José Ignacio
A1 Galán Ordax, José Manuel
A1 Caro Saiz, Jorge
A1 Álvarez, Myrian
A1 Zurro, Débora
K1 ABM
K1 Cooperation
K1 Computer simulation
K1 Yamana
K1 Ethnoarchaeology
K1 Industrial management
K1 Economics
K1 Gestión de empresas
K1 Economía
AB 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
PB Springer
SN 1072-5369
YR 2014
FD 2014-06
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/3935
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/3935
LA eng
NO SpanishMinisterio de Ciencia e Innovación (projects CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 SimulPast-CSD2010-00034and HAR2009-06996) as well as from the Argentine Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas yTécnicas (project PIP-0706) and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (projectGR7846).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 23-nov-2024