Barton, C. Michael

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Arizona State University

My interests center around long-term human ecology and landscape dynamics with ongoing projects in the Mediterranean (late Pleistocene through mid-Holocene) and American Southwest (Holocene-Archaic). I've done fieldwork in Spain, Bosnia, and various locales in North America and have expertise in hunter/gatherer and early farming societies, geoarchaeology, lithic technology, and evolutionary theory, with an emphasis on human/environmental interaction, landscape dynamics, and techno-economic change.

Quantitative methods for characterizing socioecological dynamics are increasingly critical to archaeological research and are an important focus of my research, especially emphasizing spatial technologies (including GIS and remote sensing), modeling and simulation, exploratory data analysis, and morphological analysis.

Research Interests:

long-term human ecology and landscape dynamics

Home Page:

C. Michael Barton's website

Publications:

Computational Modeling and Neolithic Socioecological Dynamics: A Case Study from Southwest Asia

Alternative Futures of the Past: Modeling Neolithic Landuse and its Consequences in the Ancient Mediterranean

Simulation Modeling for Human Community and Agricultural Landuse

Modeling Impacts of Landuse Practices on Mediterranean Landscapes

Land Cover Change in the Southern Levant: 1973 to 2007

Modeling Long-term Socioecology: the Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics Project

Modeling Long-Term Landscape Dynamics and the Emergence of Intensification

Modeling of Agropastoral Human Activities Using Agent-Based Simulation

CHANS Projects:

The Emergence of Coupled Natural and Human Landscapes in the Western Mediterranean

CNH: RCN: A Research Network for Computational Modeling in the Socioecological Sciences

Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics Project (Proposal title: Land-Use and Landscape Socioecology in the Mediterranean Basin: A Natural Laboratory for the Study of the Long-Term Interaction of Human and Natural Systems)

Sponsors

National Science Foundation (NSF) - The only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. We are tasked with keeping the United States at the leading edge of discovery in areas from astronomy to geology to zoology. So, in addition to funding research in the traditional academic areas, the agency also supports "high-risk, high pay-off" ideas, novel collaborations and numerous projects that may seem like science fiction today, but which the public will take for granted tomorrow.

Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, Michigan State University - A center of excellence that integrates ecology with socioeconomics, demography, and other disciplines for ecological sustainability from local, national, to global scales.

Global Land Project - A joint research project for land systems in the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme.

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