Adrian Chase Member since: Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:10 PM Full Member

A.B. Harvard (Anthropology and Computer Science), M.A. Arizona State University (Anthropology)

Timothy Dennehy Member since: Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:03 PM

BA Psychology, MA Anthropology

Prehistoric archaeology of hunter-gatherer societies in Mesoamerica and American Southeast; comparative analysis of urban form and service provision; social inequality; complex adaptive systems; cultural evolution.

Colin Wren Member since: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 07:01 PM Full Member Reviewer

B.A., Anthropology, McGill University, M.Sc., GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology, University College London, Ph.D., Archaeology, McGill University

Currently Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Colorado Springs. I took my first modelling class in Repast with Dr. Mark Lake as part of my M. Sc. at UCL. After a workshop with Dr. Luke Premo and Dr. Anne Kandler, I moved to NetLogo and haven’t looked back.

Find our recent textbook, Agent-based modeling for Archaeology: Simulating the Complexity of Societies here: https://santafeinstitute.github.io/ABMA/

Steven Doubleday Member since: Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 06:43 PM

BS, Sociology/Anthropology, Haverford College

Graduate studies in mathematical behavioral sciences, with focus on developing cognitively plausible agent models for simulation of economic problems.

R Dinapoli Member since: Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 07:55 PM

B.A. Anthropology, M.A. Anthropology (in progress)

My research involves the application of behavioral ecological models to archaeological problems with a focus on Pacific Island societies.

Simen Oestmo Member since: Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 09:45 PM Reviewer

Bachelor degree in Social Sciences - Archaeology, Master of Arts in Anthropology - Archaeology, PhD in Anthropology - Archaeology

Grant Snitker Member since: Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 09:39 PM Full Member

Ph.D., Anthropology, Arizona State University

I am an environmental archaeologist, specializing in charcoal analysis, computational and analytical proxy modeling, and quantitative methods to understand the dynamic relationship between fire, humans, and long-term environmental change. I work primarily in the Western United States and the Western Mediterranean. I am passionate about our public lands and ensuring that everyone has access and opportunity to experience them.

Envrionmental Archaeology, Fire Ecology, GIS, Agent-based modeling, Geoarchaeology

Jade D'Alpoim Guedes Member since: Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 06:29 PM

PhD

Chloe Atwater Member since: Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 02:59 AM

B.S. in Evolutionary Anthropology, UC Davis, PhD Student in Archaeology, ASU

Applying agent-based models to archaeological data, using modern ethnoarchaeological data as an analog for behavior.

Shelby Manney Member since: Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:20 PM

BA - English, BS - Anthropology (Archaeoinformatics - GIS, Applied Stats, Data Mang.,CRM CERT), BFA - Music, BA - Writing & Rhetoric, MA - Technical, Professional, & Science Writing (TPSW - Cert), MS - Cultural Studies in Applied Sciences (Philosophy of Science - Archaeology/Semiotics Focus), MA - Anthropology

General Question:
Without Central Control is self organization possible?

Specific Case:

Considering the seemingly preplanned, densely aggregated communities of the prehistoric Puebloan Southwest, is it possible that without centralized authority (control), that patches of low-density communities dispersed in a bounded landscape could quickly self-organize and construct preplanned, highly organized, prehistoric villages/towns?

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