@article{2f80f0608e3040d2a4201b54db5b6606,
title = "Modelling prehispanic Pueblo societies in their ecosystems",
abstract = "We review a suite of agent-based models developed by the Village Ecodynamics Project (VEP) to study ecological, economic, social, and political processes among prehispanic Puebloan ({"} Anasazi{"} ) populations in the Northern US Southwest in the context of a dynamic natural environment. Collectively these models shed light on processes that include the local intensification of turkey raising, the emergence of complex societies in this region, and the complete depopulation of the Northern Southwest in the thirteenth-century AD. Quantitative computational modelling contributes to the explanatory goals of a scientific archaeology and such models should eventually provide standards allowing for more rigorous comparison of distinct archaeological sequences.",
keywords = "Agent-based models, Archaeology, Evolution of political hierarchy in small-scale societies, Exchange in small-scale societies, Simulation, Specialization in small-scale societies, US Southwest, Village Ecodynamics Project",
author = "Kohler, {Timothy A.} and Bocinsky, {R. Kyle} and Denton Cockburn and Crabtree, {Stefani A.} and Varien, {Mark D.} and Kolm, {Kenneth E.} and Schaun Smith and Ortman, {Scott G.} and Ziad Kobti",
note = "Funding Information: Funding to support the VEP and reporting of our results has come from the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (grant R-047 to Kohler), the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (CONF-217 to Kohler and Gumerman), and the National Science Foundation (BCS-0119981 to Kohler, Kolm, Reynolds, and Varien, and DEB-0816400 to Kohler, Allen, Kobti, and Varien). The authors are also indebted to support from Washington State University, the Santa Fe Institute, Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, the Washington State University/University of Washington NSF IGERT Program in Evolutionary Modeling (DGE-0549425), and other individuals and institutions too numerous to list. Thanks finally to Kelsey Reese for help in readying this paper for publication, and for very useful comments from two anonymous reviewers.",
year = "2012",
month = aug,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2012.01.002",
language = "English",
volume = "241",
pages = "30--41",
journal = "Ecological Modelling",
issn = "0304-3800",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
}