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Collapse of the Anasazi
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Collapse of the Anasazi
Concepts Applied
- Chance- Medieval warming period 1100-1300
- Group Behavior- New religious cult, cannibals
- Competition and Evolution- Lack of food, Non-Anasazi moving into area
- Non linearity- farming practices and drought
- Network Effects- starvation/lack of food
Quantitative Analysis
- Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based Modeling
- The Artificial Anasazi Project is an agent-based modeling study based on the Sugarscape model created by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell
Decline and Collapse
The Anasazi
http://object-field.blogspot.com/2008/10/understanding-anasazi-using-agent-based.html
The weather
Social pressures
Opportunity elsewhere
- 200 AD - 1300
- Large civilization in the southwest (Four Corners Region)
- Known for their basket weaving, pottery, and cave dwellings
- Ancestors to the Pueblo peoples
Their System
- Relied on poor for food production
- Large income inequality
- Once nomadic, settled down
- Large populations relied on rains
References
- "Anasazi." Anasazi. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2016.
- Dean, Jeffrey S., George J. Gumerman, Joshua M. Epstein, Robert L. Axtell, Alan C. Swedlund, Miles T. Parker, and Stephen Mccarroll. "Chapter 4. UNDERSTANDING ANASAZI CULTURE CHANGE THROUGH AGENT-BASED MODELING." Generative Social Science: Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling (n.d.): n. pag. Web.
- Lempert, R. "Agent-based Modeling as Organizational and Public Policy Simulators." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99.Supplement 3 (2002): 7195-196. Web.
- Posey, Jeffrey. "Why Did the Anasazi Collapse? | Jeff Posey." Jeff Posey. N.p., 24 Sept. 2015. Web. 12 Dec. 2016.
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