Iza Romanowska, Colin D. Wren and Stefani A. Crabtree. Agent-Based Modelling for Archaeology: Simulating the Complexity of Society (Santa Fe: The Santa Fe Institute Press. 2021. xiii and 429 pp., numerous illustr., pbk, ISBN 978-1-947864-25-2)

Abstract

picture of technological knowledge and the organization of society. It does not imply social inequality, but the importance of cooperation is clearly visible. Vincǎ communities may have passed on their technological knowledge, and this flow of information is reconstructed in the direction of the Kodžadermen-GumelniţaKaranovo VI communities in present-day Bulgaria. From this point on, the task of future research is to reconstruct how this technological knowledge survives or is transformed in the next period after the abrupt end of the Vincǎ culture. After all, the period after 4450 cal BC is the heyday of the mass production of copper artefacts, with extensive formal variety. However, not enough is known about the communities of this period in present-day Serbia. We also know little about how the knowledge of metallurgical technology was integrated into the life of communities Bulgaria during the same period. Overall, the result is an impressive and convincing volume that will be indispensable in the following decades for research into the Neolithic and Copper Age of southeast Europe, as well as the beginnings of metallurgy. I am sure that Borislav Jovanovic,́ to whom this volume was dedicated, would read it with appreciation. REFERENCES