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A Family of Five is Not the Same as One Household: The Effects of Disaggregation on Demographic Outcomes in Archaeological Simulation Models (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Warren. Lisa Sattenspiel. Alan C. Swedlund. George J. Gumerman, III.

Many archaeological agent-based computer models (ABMs) use the household as the smallest unit of investigation but, in order to answer questions about how factors such as disease, social interaction, and population movement contributed to population dynamics in prehistory, there is a need for individual-level models. Our team has worked to disaggregate an early archaeological ABM, the Artificial Anasazi model, into an individual-level model, the Artificial Long House Valley model. The baseline...