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Applying Brantingham’s Neutral Model of Stone Raw Material Procurement to the Pinnacle Point Middle Stone Age Record, Western Cape, South Africa (1.0.0)

This model is an application of Brantingham’s neutral model to a real landscape with real locations of potential sources. The sources are represented as their sizes during current conditions, and from marine geophysics surveys, and the agent starts at a random location in Mossel Bay Region (MBR) surrounding the Archaeological Pinnacle Point (PP) locality, Western Cape, South Africa. The agent moves at random on the landscape, picks up and discards raw materials based only upon space in toolkit and probability of discard. If the agent happens to encounter the PP locality while moving at random the agent may discard raw materials at it based on the discard probability.

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Model built in Netlogo 6.02. Unzip dataset file. Put data folder in same folder as netlogo model. Run model.

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Applying Brantingham’s Neutral Model of Stone Raw Material Procurement to the Pinnacle Point Middle Stone Age Record, Western Cape, South Africa 1.0.0

Submitted by Simen Oestmo Published Mar 10, 2019 Last modified Dec 05, 2024
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This model is an application of Brantingham’s neutral model to a real landscape with real locations of potential sources. The sources are represented as their sizes during current conditions, and from marine geophysics surveys, and the agent starts at a random location in Mossel Bay Region (MBR) surrounding the Archaeological Pinnacle Point (PP) locality, Western Cape, South Africa. The agent moves at random on the landscape, picks up and discards raw materials based only upon space in toolkit and probability of discard. If the agent happens to encounter the PP locality while moving at random the agent may discard raw materials at it based on the discard probability.

Release Notes

Model built in Netlogo 6.02. Unzip dataset file. Put data folder in same folder as netlogo model. Run model.

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Simen Oestmo, Marco Janssen, Haley Cawthra (2019, March 10). “Applying Brantingham’s Neutral Model of Stone Raw Material Procurement to the Pinnacle Point Middle Stone Age Record, Western Cape, South Africa” (Version 1.0.0). CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.25937/fma1-qz39

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Simen Oestmo Marco Janssen Haley Cawthra
DOI

10.25937/fma1-qz39

Model Version
1.0.0
License
GPL-3.0
Programming Language
NetLogo
Software Framework
NetLogo
Operating System
Windows
Publish Date
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Last Updated
Thursday, December 05, 2024
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1.0.0 Simen Oestmo Sun Mar 10 19:19:12 2019 Thu Dec 5 06:36:17 2024 Published Peer Reviewed DOI: 10.25937/fma1-qz39

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