RE:anastasi

[Nick Thompson]

This work was reported by George Gummerman at the SFI summer school and
was, for me, one of the very best and most interesting of the presentations
to that school.  It seems like superb work.

Quote from the article:

"Kohler's team, and a group lead by George Gumerman of the School of
American Research in Santa Fe, used the approach to explore how
environmental conditions may have influenced Puebloan people's settlement
and land use in the central Mesa Verde region of Colo. and Long House
Valley of Ariz.  First, they programmed the computer to simulate the
effects of population growth, resource use and other well-documented
environmental factors on the behavior of virtual households (see
illustration).  Then, they compared the models to the abundant
archaeological record of the region. "

N

Nicholas S. Thompson
Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
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> I think I have seen similar simulations about the American Southwest and

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> Anasazi before. Isn't that near Santa Fe ? Anyway, here is the link
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[Jochen Fromm-3]

Kohler and Gumerman have published their results in the new Scientific
American from July 2005. I got the July issue today. The recent issues of
Scientific American were quite disappointing, but it seems to become a bit
better. The title of the article is

"Simulating Ancient Societies"
Timothy A. Kohler, George J. Gumerman, and Robert G. Reynolds
Scientific American Vol. 293 No. 1 July (2005) 77-84
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00093DF3-6BD4-12B9-9A2C83414B7F00
00

-J.