ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended to situate certain complex systems concepts in relation to agent based theoretical approaches currently employed in archaeology. The chapter, in asense, builds upon an article by Nigel Gilbert in which he describes the potentially productive relationship between agent based simulation and models of social agency from sociology (Gilbert 1995). In the first part of this chapter, I briefly examine the concept of agency as it has been imported into archaeology, followed by a discussion of sociology's critiques of one of the primary sources from which archaeologists have borrowed agency.
