Specialisation and wealth inequality in a model of a clustered economic network

被引:22
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作者
Bentley, RA [1 ]
Lake, MW [1 ]
Shennan, SJ [1 ]
机构
[1] UCL, AHRB Ctr Evolutionary Anal Cultural Bahav, Inst Archaeol, London WC1H 0PY, England
关键词
agent-based modelling; complex networks; exchange; kin networks; mesolithic-neolithic transition; power laws; prehistoric trade; wealth inequality; social networks;
D O I
10.1016/j.jas.2005.03.008
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
In this paper we present an agent-based model of specialization, exchange and inequality within a clustered social network, with implications for the economic effect that contact with colonizing groups may have had on prehistoric indigenous populations. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:1346 / 1356
页数:11
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