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T1 Robustness assessment of the ‘cooperation under resource pressure’ (CURP) model: Insights on resource availability and sharing practices among hunter-gatherers
A1 Zurro, Débora
A1 Ahedo García, Virginia
A1 Pereda, María
A1 Álvarez, Myrian
A1 Briz i Godino, Ivan
A1 Caro Saiz, Jorge
A1 Santos Martín, José Ignacio
A1 Galán Ordax, José Manuel
K1 Hunter-gatherers
K1 Agent-based model
K1 ABM
K1 Cooperation under resource pressure
K1 CURP
K1 Resource availability
K1 Reciprocity
K1 Robustness assessment
K1 Economía
K1 Economy
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
K1 Prehistoria
K1 Prehistoric peoples
AB A well-known challenge in archaeological research is the exploration of the social mechanisms that hunter-gatherers may have implemented throughout history to deal with changes in resource availability. The agent-based model (ABM) ‘cooperation under resource pressure’ (CURP) was conceived to explore food stress episodes in societies lacking a food preservation technology. It was particularly aimed at understanding how cooperative behaviours in the form of food sharing practices emerge, increase and may become the prevailing strategy in relation to changes in resource availability and expectancy of reciprocity. CURP’s main outcome is the identification of three regimes of behaviour depending on the stress level. In this work, the model’s robustness to the original selection mechanism (random tournament) is assessed, as different dynamics can lead to different persistent regimes. For that purpose, three other selection mechanisms are implemented and evaluated, to identify the prevailing states of the system. Results show that the three regimes are robust irrespective of the analysed dynamics. We consequently examine in more detail the long-term archaeological implications that these results may have.
PB Liverpool University Press
SN 2056-3264
YR 2017
FD 2017-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6359
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/6359
LA eng
NO Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (former Ministry of Science and Innovation): SimulPast Project (CSD2010- 00034 CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010), HAR2009-06996 and CULM Project (HAR2016- 77672-P); from the Argentine National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET): Project PIP-0706; from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research: Project GR7846; from the project H2020 FET OPEN RIA IBSEN/662725 and from the European Social Fund as one of the authors is the recipient of a predoctoral grant from the Department of Education of Junta de Castilla y León (Spain).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 20-abr-2024