Stefani A. Crabtree

TL;DR: Recent advances in computational modeling that, in conjunction with improving data, address limitations and demonstrate the utility of deep-time modeling for calibrating the understanding of how climate is influencing societies today and may in the future are reviewed.

TL;DR: A suite of agent-based models developed by the Village Ecodynamics Project (VEP) to study ecological, economic, social, and political processes among prehispanic Puebloan (Anasazi) populations in the Northern US Southwest in the context of a dynamic natural environment was reviewed in this article.

TL;DR: The theoretical model of emergent sustainability helps to understand the diversity and dynamics of property regimes across a wide range of social–ecological systems and explains the enigma of open access without a tragedy.

TL;DR: This paper examined the plausibility of village-spanning polities in the northern upland Southwest by simulating the coevolution of hierarchy and warfare using extensions to the Village Ecodynamics Project's agent-based model.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use computer simulation to explore the extent to which food-sharing practices would have been instrumental for the survival of Ancestral Pueblo people across the patchy landscape of the Prehispanic American Southwest and suggest that we can see direct evidence of exchange through the aggregation of households into clustered settlements.