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| Collection Name: | On the Cutting Edge: Professional Development for Geoscience Faculty
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| Collection Description: | The Cutting Edge collection is a set of thematic strands on pedagogical and content topics of interest to geoscience education, broadly construed. Current strands cover teaching biocomplexity, early-career faculty development, petrology, and designing effective courses in the geosciences. The collection supports these strands by providing access to the Cutting Edge workshop materials. Therefore resources include instructional materials, activities, datasets, interfaces and tools, pedagogical resources, course development and management resources, assessment instruments, and primary literature and bibliographies. |
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Http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/
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| Resource Title: | The Village Project
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| Description: | This project seeks to understand the long-term interaction of humans, their culture(s) and their environment in southwestern Colorado, USA, from A.D. 600-1300. The research employs agent-based simulation to examine various models for how farmers locate themselves and use resources on this landscape. Agent-based models allow researchers from many disciplines to study a system that is characterized by interaction between the landscape and by the farmers as they sought to make a living in this marginal farming area. This website provides a useful example of agent-based modeling and includes a project abstract, maps, a bibliography, and a description of agent-based modeling. This resource is part of the Biocomplexity collection. http://serc.carleton.edu/biocomplexity/ |
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2003-04-14
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Washington State University, Dept. Of Anthropology
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Village Front Page Washington State University Home The Village Project Abstract Maps Personnel Background Reading Overview The Village Project is designed to help archaeologists understand the factors influencing settlement patterns of small-scale agrarian peoples. Although such societies are becoming increasingly rare, they represent the norm throughout most of the Neolithic period the world over. This project uses computer simulation in the form of agent-based modeling (ABM) to investigate where prehistoric people of the American Southwest would have situated their households based on both the natural and social environments in which they lived. The model is developed using the Swarm multi-agent simulation libraries, developed through the Santa Fe Institute and now offered as a public service by the Swarm Development Group . An overview of simulation in archaeology is presented in a recent popular magazine article by Kohler, Gumerman, and Reynolds 2005 . We seek to understand general processes in the particular (though changing) environments of southwestern Colorado between A.D. 600 and A.D. 1300. This emphasis on realism is in contrast to much agent-based modeling in the social sciences, which has typically put a premium on generality. Agent-based models not only provide us a platform through which the archaeologists, hydrologists, computer scientists, and economists associated with this project can interact (see Personnel ) but allow us to study a system which is characterized by high degrees of interaction between the landscape as it was affected by climate change and by the actions of farmers, and among the farmers themselves, as they sought to make a living in this marginal farming area. This project extends earlier research reported by Kohler et al. 2000 that investigated what models for locational behavior at the household level would best replicate the Pueblo II and Pueblo III settlement systems as they were understood in the late 1990s. We are now working with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center to map the known sites in our study area back to A.D. 600, to estimate the number of households living at each of these sites, and to estimate as precisely as possible the dates for those occupations. We have been presenting our preliminary findings in symposia at the Society for American Archaeology meetings and many other venues since 2002. To view a selection of these papers click here . Our website is published to offer users a broad overview of the project, its history, the people involved, information on similar research and links to further information. We welcome questions and feedback . Project Progress Reports Agent-based modeling in the social sciences Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction This site has been visited since being updated on June 21, 2006 Contact us: village@wsu.edu 509-335-3441 | Copyright: Washington State University Anthropology Department , P.O. Box 4910, Washington State University , Pullman, WA, 99164-4910 USA This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0119981. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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