Artificial Long House Valley (1.0.0)
This model extends the original Artifical Anasazi (AA) model to include individual agents, who vary in age and sex, and are aggregated into households. This allows more realistic simulations of population dynamics within the Long House Valley of Arizona from AD 800 to 1350 than are possible in the original model. The parts of this model that are directly derived from the AA model are based on Janssen’s 1999 Netlogo implementation of the model; the code for all extensions and adaptations in the model described here (the Artificial Long House Valley (ALHV) model) have been written by the authors. The AA model included only ideal and homogeneous “individuals” who do not participate in the population processes (e.g., birth and death)–these processes were assumed to act on entire households only. The ALHV model incorporates actual individual agents and all demographic processes affect these individuals. Individuals are aggregated into households that participate in annual agricultural and demographic cycles. Thus, the ALHV model is a combination of individual processes (birth and death) and household-level processes (e.g., finding suitable agriculture plots).
As is the case for the AA model, the ALHV model makes use of detailed archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from the Long House Valley and the adjacent areas in Arizona. It also uses the same methods as the original model (from Janssen’s Netlogo implementation) to estimate annual maize productivity of various agricultural zones within the valley. These estimates are used to determine suitable locations for households and farms during each year of the simulation.
Release Notes
Initial release of the Artificial Long House Valley model.
Associated Publications
Swedlund, Alan, Lisa Sattenspiel, Amy Warren, and George Gumerman (2014) Modelling archaeology: 20 years after Artificial Anasazi. In Agent-based Modeling and Archaeology, Gabriel Wurzer, Kerstin Kowarik, and Hans Reschreiter (eds.) Berlin: Springer, pp. 37-50.
Swedlund, Alan C, Lisa Sattenspiel, Amy Warren, Richard S Meindl, and George J Gumerman III (2016) Explorations in paleodemography: an overview of the Artificial Long House Valley agent-based modeling project, with new observations on demographic estimation. In New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology, Molly K Zuckerman and Deborah Martin (eds.) New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 403-426.
Artificial Long House Valley 1.0.0
Submitted by
Amy Warren
Published Mar 19, 2020
Last modified Mar 19, 2020
This model extends the original Artifical Anasazi (AA) model to include individual agents, who vary in age and sex, and are aggregated into households. This allows more realistic simulations of population dynamics within the Long House Valley of Arizona from AD 800 to 1350 than are possible in the original model. The parts of this model that are directly derived from the AA model are based on Janssen’s 1999 Netlogo implementation of the model; the code for all extensions and adaptations in the model described here (the Artificial Long House Valley (ALHV) model) have been written by the authors. The AA model included only ideal and homogeneous “individuals” who do not participate in the population processes (e.g., birth and death)–these processes were assumed to act on entire households only. The ALHV model incorporates actual individual agents and all demographic processes affect these individuals. Individuals are aggregated into households that participate in annual agricultural and demographic cycles. Thus, the ALHV model is a combination of individual processes (birth and death) and household-level processes (e.g., finding suitable agriculture plots).
As is the case for the AA model, the ALHV model makes use of detailed archaeological and paleoenvironmental data from the Long House Valley and the adjacent areas in Arizona. It also uses the same methods as the original model (from Janssen’s Netlogo implementation) to estimate annual maize productivity of various agricultural zones within the valley. These estimates are used to determine suitable locations for households and farms during each year of the simulation.
Release Notes
Initial release of the Artificial Long House Valley model.