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The Power of Emergence: The Effects of Bottom-Up Decision-Making in Resource Exploitation Strategies on Community Sustainability in Iron Age to Hellenistic Anatolia KU Leuven
All human societies need energy and resources in order to sustain themselves. Individual decisions on how to meet these needs necessarily impact on the possibilities of other nearby actors to meet their own. The range of exploitation possibilities thus becomes limited by the proximity to others in tandem with the (re)generative capacity of the local landscape. In this paper, we present results from SAGAscape, an agent-based model of resource ...
Tell it like it is. Discoveries from a new survey of the Northern Jordanian plateau KU Leuven
This article presents the results of a joint Finnish-Jordanian survey project that focuses on investigating the interrelations of the imperial heartlands and the Levantine region in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages. We used historical satellite images to identify potential sites on the northern Jordanian plateau, after which they were systematically investigated by archaeological survey. Of the sites discovered, the fortified site of Tell al-Assara ...
Een veranderend klimaat in de archeologie KU Leuven
Meer en meer opiniemakers stellen zich openlijk de vraag wat we eigenlijk hebben aan de menswetenschappen: tijdens pandemieën vertrouwen we op virologen en biostatistici, de klimaatcrisis denken we op te vangen door ingenieurs nieuwe technologische oplossingen te laten bedenken. Nochtans verdienen de humane wetenschappen een positie naast de exacte, ook omdat ze wel degelijk een maatschappelijke meerwaarde hebben. Zeker voor de archeologie ligt ...
SAGAscape: Simulating Resource Exploitation Strategies in Iron Age to Hellenistic Communities in Southwest Anatolia. KU Leuven
In this paper, we present SAGAscape, an agent-based model of resource exploitation and subsistence strategies to explore the human impact of hilltop settlements on the natural environment in the study area of Sagalassos (southwest Turkey) during the Iron Age to Hellenistic period. Using realistic GIS data and empirical settlement patterns as input, we simulate communities with resource exploitation strategies for three main resources: food, wood ...
The Hellenistic pottery of Sagalassos: A Typological Update KU Leuven
In this paper, we present an update to the typology of Hellenistic pottery from Sagalassos, originally presented in 2015 at the IARPotHP meeting in Lyon. Applying the standard type-variety classification system used by the Sagalassos Archaeological Research Project, we assigned type-variant codes for 863 vessels out of a sample of 1315 diagnostic sherds. Ongoing material studies have allowed us to extend the existing Hellenistic typology from 21 ...
Moving in Together? Synoikismos and Polis Formation at Sagalassos and in Southwest Anatolia KU Leuven
Topics such as polis formation and synoikismos have a rich background in classical studies, history, and archaeology. Such studies have mainly focused on the attestations of synoikismos events in literary sources and inscriptions. The archaeological side of such processes has not always been given equal weight. This paper presents a more encompassing view on patterns of synoikismos and polis formation by incorporating and assessing ...