Papers by Stefani Crabtree
Performing Outreach in Archaeology with Agent-based modeling
This code is associated with the forthcoming publication Performing Outreach in Archaeology with ... more This code is associated with the forthcoming publication Performing Outreach in Archaeology with Agent-based modeling. A step-by-step guide for using agent-based modeling in archaeological research (Part III of III) by Crabtree et al. accepted to Advances in Archaeological Practice.
Alliances, Coalitions, Hierarchies and Conflict in the Ancestral Pueblo World
Simulating Prehistoric and Ancient Worlds (Computational Social Sciences) by Juan A. Barceló and Florencia Del Castillo (eds.)
J. Artif. Soc. Soc. Simul., 2017
Understanding the Deep Socioecological System of Beringia via Bathsheba Demuth’s Floating Coast
Current Anthropology, 2020
Department of Environment and Society, College of Natural Resources, Utah State University, 5215 ... more Department of Environment and Society, College of Natural Resources, Utah State University, 5215 Old Main Hill, Logan, Utah 84322-5215, USA; Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University, PO Box 6811, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia; and Crow Canyon Research Institute, 23390 Road K, Cortez, Colorado 81321, USA ([email protected]). 21 VII 20
Antiquity, 2021
While environmental reconstruction has been a staple in the study of past societies, underused to... more While environmental reconstruction has been a staple in the study of past societies, underused tools from ecology, such as food webs, can enable a more thorough understanding of the human place within ecosystems. Drawing on two recent studies, this article describes the types of questions that can be addressed using this approach. The authors demonstrate how food webs that include archaeological data can provide insights into the effects of extinctions, invasion and ecosystem change on communities, and can address key questions of the structure and dynamics of past societies. This article highlights examples of best practice for the compilation of archaeo-ecological networks, and suggest ways of developing a synthetic understanding of past environments.
Sandpiles and settlement shifts in the American Southwest
Citation: Lipe, W., Reed, C., Dolan, P. and Crabtree, S.(2010, March 26). Sandpiles and settlemen... more Citation: Lipe, W., Reed, C., Dolan, P. and Crabtree, S.(2010, March 26). Sandpiles and settlement shifts in the American Southwest. Poster presented at the Washington State University Academic Showcase, Pullman, WA.
In this work of speculative science, scientists from a distant star system explain the emergence ... more In this work of speculative science, scientists from a distant star system explain the emergence and consequences of triparentalism, when three individuals are required for sexual reproduction, which is the standard form of mating on their home world. The report details the evolution of their reproductive system--that is, the conditions under which triparentalism and three self-avoiding mating types emerged as advantageous strategies for sexual reproduction. It also provides an overview of the biological consequences of triparental reproduction with three mating types, including the genetic mechanisms of triparental reproduction, asymmetries between the three mating types, and infection dynamics arising from their different mode of sexual reproduction. The report finishes by discussing how central aspects of their society, such as short-lasting unions among individuals and the rise of a monoculture, might have arisen as a result of their triparental system.
Social Networks, Disasters, and Human Resilience: Perspectives from the Four Fields of Anthropology Part II
Weaving frames of knowledge
Australian Archaeology
Landscape rules predict optimal superhighways for the first peopling of Sahul
Nature Human Behaviour, 2021
Archaeological data and demographic modelling suggest that the peopling of Sahul required substan... more Archaeological data and demographic modelling suggest that the peopling of Sahul required substantial populations, occurred rapidly within a few thousand years and encompassed environments ranging from hyper-arid deserts to temperate uplands and tropical rainforests. How this migration occurred and how humans responded to the physical environments they encountered have, however, remained largely speculative. By constructing a high-resolution digital elevation model for Sahul and coupling it with fine-scale viewshed analysis of landscape prominence, least-cost pedestrian travel modelling and high-performance computing, we create over 125 billion potential migratory pathways, whereby the most parsimonious routes traversed emerge. Our analysis revealed several major pathways—superhighways—transecting the continent, that we evaluated using archaeological data. These results suggest that the earliest Australian ancestors adopted a set of fundamental rules shaped by physiological capacity...
This project utilizes network analysis and agent-based modeling to examine long-standing question... more 
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