ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we describe the construction of agent-based models of emergent ancient urban centers using techniques from computational intelligence, agent-based modeling, complex systems, data mining, and existing archaeological data from the prehistoric urban center, Monte Albán. This application is selected because of its importance in understanding the emergence of modern economic and political systems. The use of agent-based techniques facilitates the migration of results and investigations between levels, macro, meso, and micro. We examine different spatial levels starting at macro level and then take its questions to the micro level thru the meso level to answer our questions, and then bring these answers back to the macro level.
