Jeffrey S. Dean

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived a forest drought-stress index (FDSI) for the southwestern United States using a comprehensive tree-ring data set representing AD 1000-2007, which is approximately equally influenced by the warm-season vapour-pressure deficit (largely controlled by temperature) and cold-season precipitation, together explaining 82% of the FDSI variability.

TL;DR: A multiagent computational model of Anasazi society closely reproduces the main features of its actual history, including population ebb and flow, changing spatial settlement patterns, and eventual rapid decline.

TL;DR: In this article, an agent-based computational model of Long House Valley, in northern Arizona near Monument Valley, is described and demontrated, which consists of artificial adaptive agents (households) who inhabit a digitized version of the Long House valley landscape.

TL;DR: The use of trees from both the Chuska and San Mateo mountains, but not from the San Pedro Mountains, as early as A.D. 974 suggests that selection of timber sources was driven more by regional socioeconomic ties than by a simple model of resource depletion with distance and time.

TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of culture change among the Anasazi of the American Southwest by a conceptual model of the interaction among environment, population, and behavior, the major determinants of human adaptive systems is presented.