Theoretical developments are needed to interpret the increasing amount of large-scale spatial data about past settlements. So far, settlement patterns have mostly been considered as passive imprints of past human activities and most theories are limited to ecological processes. Locational and spatial interactions have scarcely been included as long-term driving forces of settlement systems but hold promise to explain large-scale patterns. This paper proposes a conceptual model for long-term spatial adaptive settlement systems based on the complex adaptive systems framework and both spatial and cross-scale interactions. The goal of the model is to find new ways of interpreting archaeological location data and understand settlement systems as emerging from micro-choices of population units interacting in space. The conceptualisation is carried out on a level that it can be used to bridge hunter-gatherer and urban theories.

中文翻译：

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将聚落系统构建为空间自适应系统

需要理论发展来解释越来越多的有关过去定居点的大规模空间数据。迄今为止，聚落模式大多被认为是过去人类活动的被动印记，并且大多数理论仅限于生态过程。位置和空间相互作用几乎没有被视为聚落系统的长期驱动力，但有望解释大规模模式。本文提出了一种基于复杂自适应系统框架以及空间和跨尺度相互作用的长期空间自适应聚落系统的概念模型。该模型的目标是找到解释考古位置数据的新方法，并理解从人口单位在空间相互作用的微观选择中出现的定居系统。概念化是在可以用来连接狩猎采集理论和城市理论的水平上进行的。