Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley. Export

@article{citeulike:3509322, abstract = {Long House Valley in the Black Mesa area of northeastern Arizona (U.S.) was inhabited by the Kayenta Anasazi from about 1800 before Christ to about anno Domini 1300. These people were prehistoric ancestors of the modern Pueblo cultures of the Colorado Plateau. Paleoenvironmental research based on alluvial geomorphology, palynology, and dendroclimatology permits accurate quantitative reconstruction of annual fluctuations in potential agricultural production (kg of maize per hectare). The archaeological record of Anasazi farming groups from anno Domini 200-1300 provides information on a millennium of sociocultural stasis, variability, change, and adaptation. We report on a multiagent computational model of this society that closely reproduces the main features of its actual history, including population ebb and flow, changing spatial settlement patterns, and eventual rapid decline. The agents in the model are monoagriculturalists, who decide both where to situate their fields as well as the location of their settlements. Nutritional needs constrain fertility. Agent heterogeneity, difficult to model mathematically, is demonstrated to be crucial to the high fidelity of the model.}, author = {Axtell, Robert L. and Epstein, Joshua M. and Dean, Jeffrey S. and Gumerman, George J. and Swedlund, Alan C. and Harburger, Jason and Chakravarty, Shubha and Hammond, Ross and Parker, Jon and Parker, Miles}, citeulike-article-id = {3509322}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.092080799}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12011406}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=12011406}, day = {14}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.092080799}, issn = {0027-8424}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}, month = {May}, pages = {7275--7279}, posted-at = {2009-10-14 22:35:15}, priority = {2}, title = {Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.092080799}, volume = {99 Suppl 3}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3509322 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3509322 N2 - Long House Valley in the Black Mesa area of northeastern Arizona (U.S.) was inhabited by the Kayenta Anasazi from about 1800 before Christ to about anno Domini 1300. These people were prehistoric ancestors of the modern Pueblo cultures of the Colorado Plateau. Paleoenvironmental research based on alluvial geomorphology, palynology, and dendroclimatology permits accurate quantitative reconstruction of annual fluctuations in potential agricultural production (kg of maize per hectare). The archaeological record of Anasazi farming groups from anno Domini 200-1300 provides information on a millennium of sociocultural stasis, variability, change, and adaptation. We report on a multiagent computational model of this society that closely reproduces the main features of its actual history, including population ebb and flow, changing spatial settlement patterns, and eventual rapid decline. The agents in the model are monoagriculturalists, who decide both where to situate their fields as well as the location of their settlements. Nutritional needs constrain fertility. Agent heterogeneity, difficult to model mathematically, is demonstrated to be crucial to the high fidelity of the model. JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America SN - 0027-8424 EP - 7279 TI - Population growth and collapse in a multiagent model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley. VL - 99 Suppl 3 SP - 7275 AU - Axtell, Robert AU - Epstein, Joshua AU - Dean, Jeffrey AU - Gumerman, George AU - Swedlund, Alan AU - Harburger, Jason AU - Chakravarty, Shubha AU - Hammond, Ross AU - Parker, Jon AU - Parker, Miles PY - 2002/05/14/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.092080799 ER -