Contents -- Preface -- Putting Social Sciences Together Again: An Introduction to the Volume -- Nonlinear and Synthetic Models for Primate Societies -- The Evolution of Cooperation in an Ecological Context: An Agent-Based Model -- Evolution of Inference -- Trajectories to Complexity in Artificial Societies: Rationality, Belief, and Emotions -- MAGICAL Computer Simulation of Mesolithic Foraging -- Be There Then: A Modeling Approach to Settlement Determinants and Spatial Efficiency Among Late Ancestral Pueblo Populations of the Mesa Verde Region, U.S. Southwest -- Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based Modeling -- Anti-Chaos, Common Property, and the Emergence of Cooperation -- The Political Impact of Marriage in a Virtual Polynesian Society -- The Impact of Raiding on Settlement Patterns in the Northern Valley of Oaxaca: An Approach Using Decision Trees -- The Fractal House of Pharaoh: Ancient Egypt as a Complex Adaptive System, a Trial Formulation -- Modeling Sociality: The View from Europe -- Agent-Based Modeling of Small-Scale Societies: State of the Art and Future Prospects -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.