Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
This symposium celebrates Timothy (Tim) A. Kohler’s (TAKO’s) archaeological career. His roots were laid in Florida where he studied at McKeithen Village on Weeden Island. His research at WSU refocused on Southwestern United States (SWUS) with the Dolores Archaeological Program (DAP) and at Bandelier National Monument (BAND). Tim’s collaboration with the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) highlighted his research on an international and interdisciplinary stage. His modeling research with the Village Ecodynamics Project (VEPI, VEPII-N and -S) explained changes in settlement systems in the Upland U.S. Southwest (UUSS) between A.D. 600 and 1760. He led the Synthesizing Knowledge of Past Environments (SKOPE) project to improve accessibility for paleoenvironmental data. He continued to highlight archaeology’s importance through his contributions to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. In 2022, Tim was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his outstanding original research achievements. Tim is currently a co-PI on the Global Dynamics of Inequality (GINI) project which studies the development of social inequality. Scholars in this symposium will discuss the significance of Tim’s career and how Tim influenced their own, including presenting new research inspired by or building on Tim’s work.
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Aggregation and Exchange Networks: The Case Study from the Central Mesa Verde Region (2025)
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This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As population density increases throughout the Holocene, people tend to expand their mobility strategies to acquire necessary resources (e.g., food, raw materials, mating opportunities, etc.). This is a common perception of human behavior globally; however, archaeological records, particularly lithic...
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Archaeological Research at the Intersection of Physical and Artificial Realities (2025)
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This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The proliferation of artificial intelligence coupled with the accessibility of consumer-level computing equipment that can analyze big data has heralded a new paradigm of research in the hard and social sciences. While archaeology is often reticent to broadly adopt the newest technologies, a suite of...
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The Archaeology of Climate Change and Understanding Modern Climate and Weather-Related Hazards in the United States (2025)
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This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Severe heat waves and droughts are visible manifestations of climate change, and many people associate these events with climate change risks in the US. Drought impacts public health, economies, and quantity and quality of water. Over the past 2,000 years, the southwestern US has experienced several...
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The Influence of Tim Kohler's Early Pottery Analysis on Pottery Studies in Florida and the Greater Southeast (2025)
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This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Even as a grad student, Tim Kohler was a renaissance individual in terms of expertise with the artifacts and materials of the southeastern US. At the Woodland Weeden Island-period McKeithen site in North Florida, his innovative statistical analyses and computerized mapping documented chronological and...
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Pushing the envelope, from GINI to EXPLO (2025)
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This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tim Kohler’s research is a masterclass in collaboration-building, openness and strategic thinking, all managed with good humour – and acronyms. Here I aim to show how lessons from Tim’s work in the Southwest and on the GINI project inform Oxford research on EXPLO, an ERC synergy project with the...
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Tim Kohler at SFI: A Serious Attempt at Modeling the Development of Prehistoric Societies (2025)
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This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Timothy Kohler spent many years interacting with colleagues at the Santa Fe Institute. During his first stay he mastered, unusual for archaeologists, the complex systems approach developed there and began to apply it to settlement pattern modeling in the four corners area. That led to what is in my...
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Timothy A. Kohler: The Early Academic Years (2025)
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This is an abstract from the "Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1968, Timothy Kohler was one of 672 students graduating from the Davenport (Iowa) Central High School. He then headed east and south to Sarasota, Florida where he enrolled in New College, a progressive liberal arts institution whose total student body numbered fewer than 500. While an undergraduate...