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dc.contributor.advisorSattenspiel, Lisaeng
dc.contributor.authorWarren, Amy L., 1980-eng
dc.date.issued2018eng
dc.date.submitted2018 Springeng
dc.descriptionDr. Lisa Sattenspiel, Dissertation Supervisor.eng
dc.descriptionField of study: Anthropology.eng
dc.description"May 2018."eng
dc.description.abstractThis project contributes to our understanding of human adaptability to environmental stress and climate change in Long House Valley and Black Mesa, Arizona from AD 800-1350. This was accomplished through the development of a series of agentbased archaeological models. The first stage, Disaggregation, created a model that simulated individual persons within the Long House Valley landscape, a departure from the household-level models common in archaeological modeling. The second stage, Demography, applied empirically derived fertility and mortality rates to these human populations to provide insight into the effects of such rates on population patterns. The final stage expanded the modeled environment to include Black Mesa and allowed for the migration of individuals and households between the two areas in response to varying environmental and demographic pressures throughout the study period. The results of this project indicate that the introduction of biological and ethnographic realism to a model can produce unexpected results, including those that deviate from the population patterns observed archaeologically. Despite these unexpected interactions, the results support the importance of variations in agricultural productivity in driving human migrations in the region. Future archaeological models should consider further exploration small-scale, local population movements and the effects of dynamically changing fertility and mortality rates.eng
dc.description.bibrefIncludes bibliographical references (pages 145-156).eng
dc.format.extent1 online resource (x, 255 pages) : illustrationseng
dc.identifier.merlinb129176485eng
dc.identifier.oclc1098173879eng
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10355/66128
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.32469/10355/66128eng
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.publisherUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
dc.relation.ispartofcommunityUniversity of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertationseng
dc.rightsOpenAccess.eng
dc.rights.licenseThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.eng
dc.titleSimulating prehistoric population dynamics and adaptive behavioral responses to the environment in Long House Valley and Black Mesa, Arizonaeng
dc.typeThesiseng
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropology (MU)eng
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Missouri--Columbiaeng
thesis.degree.levelDoctoraleng
thesis.degree.namePh. D.eng


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