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From Narratives to Algorithms: Extending Archaeological Explanation beyond Archaeology

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The static, fragmentary archaeological record requires us to construct models of the human past. Traditionally, these have been narratives that make compelling stories but are difficult to evaluate. Recent advances in geospatial and agent-based modeling technology offers the potential to create quantitative models of human systems, but also challenge us…

The static, fragmentary archaeological record requires us to construct models of the human past. Traditionally, these have been narratives that make compelling stories but are difficult to evaluate. Recent advances in geospatial and agent-based modeling technology offers the potential to create quantitative models of human systems, but also challenge us to conceive of human societies in ways that can be expressed in algorithmic form. Besides making our own explanations more robust, integrating such quantitative modeling into archaeological practice can produce more useful accounts of human systems and their long-term dynamics for other disciplines and policy makers.|abstract
ContributorsBarton, C. Michael (Author)
Created2009

Climate Change and Socioecological Dynamics in Eastern Spain

ContributorsMiller, Alexandra E. (Author) / Barton, C. Michael (Author) / Schmich, Steven (Author) / McClure, Sarah (Author)
Created2008

Computational Modeling for Socioecological Systems Science

ContributorsBarton, C. Michael (Author)
Created2008

Modeling Long-term Socioecology: The Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics Project

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Invited presentation for "Next Generation Simulations of Human-Environmental Interactions," sponsored by the Santa Fe Institute and the University of Arizona, Tucson, 12-14 December, 2005.

ContributorsBarton, C. Michael (Author) / Sarjoughian, Hessam S. (Author) / Falconer, Steven E. (Contributor)
Created2005

Archaeoclimatology and Ancient Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics

ContributorsHill, J. Brett (James Brett), 1960- (Author) / Miller, Alexandra E. (Author) / Wentz, Elizabeth (Author) / Barton, C. Michael (Author)
Created2008

Human-Environment Interactions in a Changing Environment: A Computational Model of Agropastoral Practices and Landscapes in Neolithic Spain

ContributorsBergin, Sean M. (Author) / Ullah, Isaac I. T., 1979- (Author) / Barton, C. Michael (Author) / Gravel-Miguel, Claudine (Author)
Created2012

Land-Use, Water, and Mediterranean Landscapes: Modeling Long-Term Dynamics of Complex Socioecological Systems

ContributorsBarton, C. Michael (Author)
Created2009

Coupled Models for Coupled Systems: Land-Use and Landscape Dynamics in the Mediterranean

ContributorsBarton, C. Michael (Author) / Ullah, Isaac I. T., 1979- (Author) / Mayer, Gary R. (Author) / Sarjoughian, Hessam S. (Author) / Bergin, Sean M. (Author) / Miller, Alexandra E. (Author) / Mitasova, H. (Author)
Created2010

Coupled ABM-GIS Modeling of Agro-Pastoral Systems in Eastern Spain

ContributorsBergin, Sean M. (Author) / Ullah, Isaac I. T., 1979- (Author) / Barton, C. Michael (Author) / Mayer, Gary R. (Author) / Sarjoughian, Hessam S. (Author)
Created2010

Landuse and Landscape Sociology in the Mediterranean Basin

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PowerPoint presentation to the Santa Fe Institute, October 2004.

ContributorsBarton, C. Michael (Author)
Created2004