The 13th Floor


Dark City

Winter 2006
Human Complex Systems – 110

ARTIFICIAL CULTURE:
Experiments in Synthetic Anthropology

CULTURAL
Perceptions, Beliefs, Actions

ARCHAEOLOGICAL
Space, Time, Diffusion

BIOLOGICAL
Physical & Social Evolution

Put your ideas about complex cultural, archaeological and biological anthropology to the computational test!

An introduction to describing, understanding and explaining cultural complexity as evolving and interactive graphical simulations.

Nicholas Gessler
gessler@ucla.edu

www.bol.ucla.edu/~gessler

Tu/Th 10-12:45