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Modelling and simulating Hunter-Gatherer Seafaring in the Americas: ecology, society and watercraft technology in cold aquatic environments

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erica and the Fuego-Patagonia coast of South America. The project is based in an innovative and interdisciplinary approach: integrating Archaeology, Ethnohistory, Ecology, Computational modelling and Artificial Intelligence. The project is inherently comparative, as the two regions and their respective internal variation offer the opportunity to test past interaction among three variables: watercraft technology, environment and social organization (mobility, gender, status, cultural diversity). Ecological, archaeological and ethnohistorical data will be collected and modelled with GIS-based methods. Then, Agent-based models (ABM) will be created, validated by Sensitivity Analysis and Machine Learning (Bayesian Belief Networks) against empirical data, and finally used to geosimulate seafaring HFG in aquatic environments, test hypothesis and predict spatial patterns. The project will reach expert and non-expert audiences, including Indigenous peoples and young audiences, through a range of dissemination, communication and outreach activities. The researcher will develop the project on

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award

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SIGNED

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EU

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261380.64

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EUR