Scale, model complexity, and understanding: Simulation of settlement processes in the glenwood locality of Southwestern Iowa, 1976 and 2000

Abstract

One archaeology cant is that greater understanding comes with more data and better analytical tools. Supposedly, the better our culture history of an area, the better our understanding of the cultural processes operating there. Intuitively, this bit of received wisdom, repeated often in the conclusions of numerous archaeology conference papers, seems obvious, but is it true? © 2006 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.