slides to accompany talk at the SAA annual meeting at Honolulu, on modeling coupled social-natural systems

1. Or, the role of agent based
modeling in historical
archaeology
Shawn Graham,
Carleton University
@electricarchaeo
“2”cc: t1ck, Flickr

2. “HUG?” cc, ~bassoonbuddy247, DeviantArt

3. Ein Augur erklärt Numa Pompilius nach dem Orakel des Vogelfluges zum
König, Radierung von Bernhard Rode 1768-69, Wikicommons

4. Saul and the Witch of Endor, William Mount, 1807-1868. Wikicommons.

5. „Classic Romero Zombies‟ Cc Pedro Vezini, Flickr

6. •Not useful for literate
societies
•Tautological
•Not a very good analogy, is
it?
Screencapture, Monty Python & The Holy Grail

7. http://wallpoper.com/wallpaper/pink-floyd-407858

8.  I‟m a one-man band.
 My models need to be simple
 in their aims
 in their outputs

9. http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs
/index.php/digital_studies/article/
viewArticle/172
…bit of garbage in there.
It‟s actually „2‟.

10. Smaller, more constrained models
have bigger impacts
…at least in the humanities…
Roman Hispania, Road Network - Wikicommons

11. Hodder, Ian. Entangled: An
archaeology of the relationships
between humans and things. Wiley-
Blackwell 2012. Pg 181, Figure 9.2
Entanglements of clay at Catalhoyuk.

13. Difficulty of
teasing out the
key
relationships in
complex
models
Human-thing
Part of a
relationships
modular
infinitely
approach
extensible
ABM need
to be small
for historical
archaeology
One issue, one
resistance
model

14. Shawn Graham,
Carleton University
@electricarchaeo