Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Scaling Theory and Archaeology; Chapter Three: Agent-based modeling and archaeology; Chapter 4: Network Analysis and Archaeology; Chapter 5.1: Settlement Scaling And Agent-Based Modeling; Chapter 5.2 How to Make a Polity (in the central Mesa Verde region); Chapter 6.1: Network Analysis and Food Webs Case Study; Chapter 6.2 Reconstructing Ancestral Pueblo Food Webs in the Southwestern United States; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Glossary; Index.
Biography
Stefani A. Crabtree is Associate Professor in Social-Environmental Modeling in the Department of Environment and Society at the S.J. and Jessie E. Quinney College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Utah State University. She is also an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
"The environment, culture, and human cognition – the subject matter of archaeology – are the three most complicated systems of which we have tangible knowledge. Stefani Crabtree offers a wonderfully readable introduction to complexity science as a way to think about the emergence of order in the archaeological record."
Steve Lansing, External Professor, Complexity Science Hub Vienna and the Santa Fe Institute, USA“Stefani Crabtree has brought the best of SFI to archaeology, focusing a complexity lens on the human-environment nexus by bringing in insights from ecology, network science and geography.”
Simon Levin, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University, USA
