Recent Articles & Research Projects

Current Research Projects:

2004- present
Research Project
Paulo DeBlasis, George Gumerman, and J. Stephen Lansing
"Cycles of Social and Environmental Complexity in Lowland Latin America"
During this project a group of interdisciplinary scholars will address the complex relationship between lowland tropical environments and cycles of social complexity.

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2000-present
Research Project
Jeffrey S. Dean, Joshua M. Epstein, George J. Gumerman, Alan C. Swedlund, and Jesse Voss
"Artificial Anasazi"
Agent-based modeling is applied to a historical problem: the rise and fall of the Anasazi. The participants have combined quantitative information on environmental fluctuations with rules of behavior expected for Anasazi households to calculate the Anasazi historical "trajectory" in unprecedented detail.

Recent Articles:

2005
Timothy A. Kohler, George J. Gumerman, and Robert G. Reynolds, "Simulating Ancient Sociteties: Computer Modeling is helping Unravel the Archaeological Mysteries of the Southwest," Scientific American, Vol.293, No. 1, pp. 76-81.

2003
George J. Gumerman, Alan C. Swedlund, Jeffrey S. Dean, and Joshua M. Epstein, "The Evolution of Social Behavior in the Prehistoric American Southwest," in Artificial Life, 9:435-444, MIT Press

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2001
George J. Gumerman and George Gumerman IV, "Archaeological Practice and Theory: Towards a Better Understanding of the Past and its Application to the Future," in Examining the Course of Southwestern Archaeology, C.D. Phillips and L. Sebastian eds., New Mexico Archaeological Council

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2001
George J. Gumerman, "Uniqueness, Universals, and Human Behavior," Presented at the Pecos Conference (August 11, 2001), Flagstaff, Arizona.
Symposium in honor of Robert C. Euler.

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2001
J. Dean, G. J. Gumerman, J. Epstein, R. Axtell, M. Davis, and S. McCarroll “Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent Based Modeling,” in Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of of Social and Spatial Processes (edited with T. Kohler), Oxford University Press and The Santa Fe Institute: New York

2002
R. Axtell, J. Dean, J. Epstein, G. Gumerman, A. Swedlund, S. Chakravarty, and M. Parker, “Population Growth and Collapse in a Multi-Agent Model of the Kayenta Anasazi in Long House Valley” in Agent Based Modeling in the Social Sciences, P. Baily (editor). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.

2000
George J. Gumerman and Jeffrey S. Dean, "Artificial Anasazi," in Discovering Archaeology, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 44-51.