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This is a terrific example of how we can use modeling and simulation to investigate human culture, and group behavior including war. It is exciting to see this sort of work now being detailed in such popular sources as Scientific American.
It is perhaps coincidental that Kohler, et al., study the Four Corners region when in fact the center of the modeling and simulation world is in Santa Fe, NM where the renowned Santa Fe Institute is located (http://www.santafe.edu/). In fact, Dr. Kohler tells me that they use a program called Swarm, which was developed at the Santa Fe Institute in the early-mid '90s. I am very interested in the Stella software which is systems simulation program rather than agent-based modeling.
Regardless, this is exactly the type of basic modeling and simulation based on retrospective data that will be the foundation of future prospective efforts that might just save us all.
Indeed, Tim Kohler tells me in a recent email that he hopes to begin to model conflict and warfare present in the northern Southwest in the late A.D. 1200s.