Tim Kohler at SFI: A Serious Attempt at Modeling the Development of Prehistoric Societies

Summary

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 opinion to date the most sophisticated dynamic model of the long-term evolution of that area's demographic, social, cultural and environmental dynamics. The paper will present some of its conclusions, and discuss its potential impact on archaeology, on the area, and on our understanding of human social dynamics more in general.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Thinking of Acronyms: a Kohler Obsession? Papers in Honor of Timothy A. Kohler (TAKO)

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Abstract Id(s): 50473