Table of Contents

Preface1. Putting Social Sciences Together Again: An Introduction to the Volume, Timothy A. Kohler2. Nonlinear and Synthetic Models for Primate Societies, Irenaeus J. A. te Boekhorst and Charlotte K. Hemelrijk3. The Evolution of Cooperation in an Ecological Context: An Agent-Based Model, John W. Pepper and Barbara B. Smuts4. Evolution of Interference, Brian Skyrms5. Trajectories to Complexity in Artificial Societies: Rationality, Belief, and Emotions, Jim E. Doran6. MAGICAL Computer Simulation of Mesolithic Foraging, Mark Winter Lake7 Be There Then: A Modeling Approach to Settlement Determinants and Spatial Efficiency among Late Ancestral Pueblo Populations of the Mesa Verde Region, U.S. Southwest, Timothy A. Kohler et al.8 Understanding Anasazi Culture Change through Agent-Based Modeling, Jeffrey S. Dean et al.9. Anti-Chaos, Common Property, and the Emergence of Cooperation, J. Stephen Lansing10. The Political Impact of Marriage in a Virtual Polynesian Society, Cathy A. Small11. The Impact of Raiding on Settlement Patterns in the Northern Valley of Oaxaca: An Approach Using Decision Trees, Robert G. Reynolds12. The Fractal House of Pharaoh: Ancient Egypt as a Complex Adaptive System, a Trial Formulation, Mark Lehner13. Modeling Sociality: The View from Europe, Nigel Gilbert14. Agent-Based Modeling of Small-Scale Societies: State of the Art and Future Prospects, Henry T. WrightIndex