CLUES-DECEB · Cultural Loss Under Emulated Shocks – Demographic Environmental Climatic Empirical Bottlenecks
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Културната загуба и причините за изчезването на знания и умения при бедствия или миграции се анализират чрез компютърни модели. Това помага да се разбере как прекъсването на традициите и затихващата колективна памет водят до изгубване на културно наследство.
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Cultural Loss Under Emulated Shocks – Demographic Environmental Climatic Empirical Bottlenecks
CLUES-DECEB (Cultural Loss Under Emulated Shocks – Demographic, Environmental, Climatic, Empirical Bottlenecks) addresses the lack of systematic research on cultural loss, the mechanisms that drive it, and how it can be measured under conditions of stress and disruption. This issue is increasingly important in a world where societies face more frequent and intense disasters, pandemics, migrations, and environmental changes, all of which can interrupt the transmission of knowledge and skills. The project aimed to identify the key factors and tipping points that lead to cultural loss. To achieve this, it developed and analysed a core computer model, called EMBERS, simulating the basic mechanisms through which cultural practices disappear, using empirical case studies where populations experienced environmental or social shocks. The main modelling results showed that irregular use of a practice and the decay of collective memory are the primary drivers of cultural loss, while population size plays a smaller role than previously assumed. The project concludes that cultural loss is best understood as a dynamic process driven by disruptions in practice and memory, rather than primarily by demographic decline. It also shows that identifying tipping points requires combining modelling with empirical and interdisciplinary approaches. These results establish a new research agenda on cultural loss and provide conceptual and methodological tools for future studies. The findings are being disseminated through publications, outreach, and follow-up research to support strategies that strengthen cultural resilience.
Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз
Цел на проекта
Cultural loss is a common phenomenon throughout human history, often in relation to major external shocks. Yet, there are few studies that analyse which process might govern it. CLUES-DECEB (Cultural Loss Under Emulated Shocks – Demographic Environmental Climatic Empirical Bottlenecks) homes in the resilience of culture under demographic and environmental shocks – prognosed to become more frequent and severe. By modelling and analysing drastic changes in population or in the environmental brought about by epidemics, climate change, mass-migrations, or natural hazards, CLUES pursues two key objectives: firstly, to model the cultural resilience after a given abrupt shock; secondly, to seek empirical testing of the models with archaeological case-studies. Adopting and adapting state-of-the-art analytical techniques that have been developed over the last two decades to study the relationship between demography, enviroment and cultural loss CLUES harnesses the computational power now available to run numerical models using the archaeological and cross-cultural databases such as Human Resources Area Files. CLUES is highly interdisciplinary, combining numerical and analytical modelling from a wide suite of fields, using tools developed to model cosmological datasets, data science, archaeological and anthropological data extraction and complex systems. This ambitious project will study culture aiming to forecast the requirements to achieve a general measure of the shock-induced tipping-points of culture. This is highly relevant at a global and European scale. At planetary scale, climate change and environmental degradation will bring to the tipping-point many vulnerable systems. In Europe, many rural areas and whole member states, are losing large amounts of population due to migration. Results will shed new light on our understanding of the past, and thanks to that help our present and have influence on the preservation of cultural diversity for the future generations.
Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).
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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз