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Thinking Through Archaeological Complexity: Leveraging high performance computing, network science, and agent-based models to understand Australia’s deep past
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Tuesday Jan 30, 2024
  11:30-1:00PM 747 Weiser Hall


Stefani Crabtree

Department of Environment and Society, Utah State University

There will be coffee and snacks.
The talk will be recorded for later viewing. Link to full event listingAbstract: Complex adaptive systems science provides ways to examine relationships among individuals in the archaeological past. Through these methods we directly observe the impacts of individuals’ decisions (in the case of agent-based modeling) or their relationships to other individuals (in the case of network analysis) and then examine the effects of these behaviors on larger societal structures. Approaches from complex adaptive systems thus help advance archaeological research to study not just the tangible (artifacts) but the intangible and invisible (relationships).

In this talk I highlight how tools from complex adaptive systems science have helped solve debates on when and how the peopling of Australia happened, and how people have been fundamental components in ecosystems for generations. This work has applicability to other systems worldwide, both in the past and into the future. Archaeology helps us understand vexing problems today by illustrating the trajectories of past societies, allowing us to see the long-term consequences of human decisions.Add to Google CalendarUpcoming Events
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CSCS Seminar, Thursday, February 8, 2024, Talk Title, TBA, Elizabeth Munch,  Department of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering and Department of Mathematics; Michigan State University. 

MCDB Seminar, Monday, February 12, 2024, Heart-brain balancing act: Function and development of motor and sensory circuits for cardiac feedback control Luis Hernandez-Nunez, Harvard University

CSCS Seminar, Thursday, February 15, 2024 A Network Science for Complexity & Society, Brennan Klein, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University

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