Trailer of the SimulPast Project

Social and environmental transitions: Simulating the past to understand human behaviour (SimulPast) is a five-year research project funded within the framework of CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010. Its aim is to develop an innovative and interdisciplinary methodological framework to model and simulate ancient societies and their relationships with environmental transformations. The project includes 11 Research Groups from 7 different Institutions with more than 60 researchers from several fields (archaeology, anthropology, computer science, environmental studies, physics, mathematics and sociology). Five members of the Ethnoecology laboratory are involved in this ambitious project; they are in charge of the analysis of the socio-economic dynamics of agricultural and nomadic pastoral societies in Northern Gujarat (India), and are contributing to the theoretical research, with the aim of introducing an anthropological perspective in the modeling of human societies. http://www.simulpast.es