Michael Barton
- Senior Sustainability Scientist, Global Institute of Sustainability
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
PO Box 872402
Tempe, AZ 85287
Phone:
480-965-6262
Fax:
480-965-7671
Email:
michael.barton@asu.edu
Home Page:
http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/CMB_iWeb/Main.html
Biography
Dr. Barton received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from the University of Arizona in 1987. His interests are centered on long-term human ecology and landscape dynamics where he currently has on-going projects in the Mediterranean (late Pleistocene through mid-Holocene) and American Southwest (Holocene-Archaic). His other interests and expertise revolve around hunter/gatherer and early farming societies, geoarchaeology, lithic technology, evolutionary theory with an emphasis on human/environmental interaction, landscape dynamics and techno-economic change. He has completed fieldwork in Spain, Bosnia and various locales in North America.
In addition to directing The Mediterranean Landscape Dynamic project and The Open Agent Based Modeling Consortium, Dr. Barton teaches courses on Scholarly Inquiry, Human Impacts on the Environment, Spatial Technologies in Anthropological Research, Geoarchaeology, Lithic Technology and Issues in Old World Domestication Economies.
Expertise
agrarian societies; geoarchaeology; geospatial techniques; human ecology; hunter-gatherers; landscape studies; litic technology; paleoanthropology; spatial analysis; archaeology; algorithm development; data-fusion technology; ecological behavior; economic adaptation and climate change; geographic information science; geological processes; informatics; land use change; modeling and simulation; remote sensing; socioecology;Education
- Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1987
- M.A., Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1980
- B.A., Anthropology, University of Kansas, 1976
Journal Articles
Alessa, L., A. Kliskey, P. Williams and M. Barton. 2008. Perception of change in freshwater in remote resource-dependent Arctic communities. Global Environmental Change 18:153-164.
Alessa, L., M. Laituri and M. Barton. 2006. An "all hands" call to the social sciences community: Establishing a community framework for complexity modeling using agent based models and cyberinfrastructure. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 9. (link)
Barton, C. M. 1997. Stone tools, style, and social identity: An evolutionary perspective on the archaeological record. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 7:141-156. (link)
Barton, C. M. 1990. Stone tools and Paleolithic settlement in the Iberian peninsula. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 56:15-32.
Barton, C. M. 1990. Beyond style and function: A view from the Middle Paleolithic. American Anthropologist 92:57-92.
Barton, C. M. 1990. Modèles de variabilité dans les outils du Paléolithique moyen. L'Anthropologie 93:307-310.
Barton, C. M., J. Bernabeu Auban, O. Garcia Puchol, S. Schmich and L. Molina Balaguer. 2004. Long-term socioecology and contingent landscapes. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 11:253-395.
Barton, C. M., J. Bernabeu, J. E. Aura and O. Garcia. 1999. Landscape dynamics and socioeconomic change: An example from the Polop Alto Valley. American Antiquity 64:609-634.
Barton, C. M., J. Bernabeu, J. E. Aura, O. Garcia and N. La Roca. 2002. Dynamic landscapes, artifact taphonomy, and landuse modeling in the western Mediterranean. Geoarchaeology 17:155-190.
Barton, C. M. and G. A. Clark. 1997. Evoluionary theory in archaeological explanation. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 7:3-15. (link)
Barton, C. M., G. A. Clark and A. Cohen. 1994. Art as information: Explaining Paleolithic art in Europe. World Archaeology 26:184-206.
Barton, C. M. and M. P. Neeley. 1996. Phantom cultures of the Levantine Eipipaleolithic. Antiquity 70:139-147.
Barton, C. M., D. I. Olszewski and N. R. Coinman. 1996. Beyond the graver: Reconsidering burin function. Journal of Field Archaeology 23:111-125.
Barton, C. M., I. G. Perarnau, E. M. MacMinn-Barton, N. La Roca Cervigon, J. Bernabeu and J. E. Aura. 1992. Informe preliminar sobre la prospección de la Vall del Barxell-Polop (Alcoi-Alacant). Recerques del Museu d'Alcoi 1:81-84.
Barton, C. M. and J. Riel-Salvatore. 2012. Perception, interaction, and extinction: A reply to Premo. Human Ecology 40:797-801.
Barton, C. M. and J. Riel-Salvatore. 2012. Agents of change: Modeling biocultural evolution in Late Pleistocene western Eurasia. Advances in Complex Systems 15:115003-1-115003-24.
Barton, C. M., J. Riel-Salvatore, J. M. Anderies and G. Popescu. 2011. Modeling human ecodynamics and biocultural interactions in the Late Pleistocene of western Eurasia. Human Ecology 39:705-725. (link)
Barton, C. M., F. Rubio Gomis, C. A. Miksicek and D. G. Donahue. 1990. Domestic olive. Nature 346:518-519.
Barton, C. M., I. Ullah and S. Bergin. 2010. Land use, water, and Mediterranean landscapes: Modelling long-term dynamics of complex socio-ecological systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 368:5275-5297.
Barton, C. M., I. I. Ullah, S. M. Bergin, H. Mitasova and H. Sarjoughian. 2012. Looking for the future in the past: Long-term change in socioecological systems. Ecological Modeling 241:42-53.
Barton, C. M., I. Ullah and H. Mitasova. 2010. Computational modeling and Neolithic socioecological dynamics: A case study from southwest Asia. American Antiquity 75:364-386.
Barton, M. 1997. Preface. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 7:iii-v.
Bernabeu, J., C. M. Barton, O. Garcia and N. La Roca. 2000. Systemic survey in Alicante, Spain: First results. Tükiye Bilimer Akademisi Arkeoloji Dergisi 3:57-86.
Bernabeu, J., C. M. Barton, O. Garcia and N. La Roca. 1999. Prospecciones sistemáticas en el valle del Alcoi (Alicante): primeros resultados. Arqueologia Espacial 21:29-64.
Bernabeu, J., C. M. Barton and M. P. Ripoll. 2001. A taphonomic perspective on Neolithic beginnings: Theory, interpretation, and empirical data in the western Mediterranean. Journal of Archaeological Science 28:597-612.
Bonillo, V. V., J. E. Aura and C. M. Barton. 1998. The Upper Paleolithic in Mediterranean Spain: A review of current evidence. Journal of World Prehistory 12:121-198.
Clark, G. A. and C. M. Barton. 1997. Rediscovering Darwin. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 7:309-319.
Garcia Puchol, O., C. M. Barton and J. Bernabeu Auban. 2008. Programa de prospección geofísica, microsondeos y catas para la caracterización de un gran foso del IV milenio cal AC en Alt del Punxó (Muro de L'Alcoi, Alacant). Trabajos de Prehistória 65:143-154.
Hill, K., C. M. Barton and M. Hurtado. 2009. The emergence of human uniqueness: The evolution of characters underlying behavioral modernity. Evolutionary Anthropology 18:187-200.
Janssen, M. A., L. Na Alessa, C. M. Barton, S. Bergin and A. Lee. 2008. Towards a community framework for agent-based modeling. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 11:Art. 6.
McClure, S. B., C. M. Barton and M. Jochim. 2009. Human behavioral ecology and limate change during the transition to agriculture in Valencia, eastern Spain. Journal of Anthropological Research 65:253-269.
Miller, A. and C. M. Barton. 2008. Exploring the land: A comparison of land-use patterns in the Middle and Upper Paleolithic of the western Mediterranean. Journal of Archaeological Science 35:1427-1437.
Miller, A., M. Barton, O. Garcia and J. Bernabeu. 2009. Surviving the Holocene crisis: Human ecological responses to the onset of the current interglacial. Journal of Anthropological Research 65:207-220.
Neeley, M. P. and C. M. Barton. 1994. A new approach to interpreting Late-Pleistocene microlith industries in southwest Asia. Antiquity 68:275-288.
Olszewski, D. I. and C. M. Barton. 1990. A note on biases in early excavations at Mugharet el-Wade and Nahal Oren. Levant 22.
Peeples, M., C. M. Barton and S. Schmich. 2006. Resilience lost: Intersecting landuse and landscape dynamics in the upland Southwest. Ecology and Society 11:Art. 22. (link)
Popescu, G., J. Riel-Salvatore and C. M. Barton. 2007. Biogeographie umana si organizare tehnologica in Pleistocenul Superior in regiunea Carpatilor Meridionali. Materiale si Cercetari Arheoloice III:19-42.
Puchol, O. G. and C. M. Barton. 2001. Las ocupaciones prehistóricas del Barranc de l'Encantada (Beniarrés, Alacant): Un primer blanace de la intervención auqueológica en al Área. Recerques del Museu d'Alcoi 10.
Riel-Salvatore, J. and C. M. Barton. 2004. Late Pleistocene technology, economic behavior, and land-use dynamics in southern Italy. American Antiquity 69:273-290.
Riel-Salvatore, J., G. Popescu and C. M. Barton. 2008. Standing at the gates of Europe: Human behavior and biogeography in the southern Carpathians during the Late Pleistocene. Journal of Archaeological Research 27:399-417.
Rubio Gomis, F. and C. M. Barton. 1992. Abric de la Falguera: avance preliminar. Anales de la Real Academica de Cultura Valenciana 69:15-30.
Books and Book Chapters
Barton, C. M. 2008. General fitness, transmission, and human behavioral systems. Pp. 112-119 In: N. Obrien J. ed. Cultural Transmission. Society for American Archaeology Press.
Barton, C. M. ed. 1988. Lithic Variability and Middle Paleolithic Behavior: New Evidence from the Iberian Peninsula. BAR International Series 408, Oxford.
Barton, C. M., G. A. Clark, D. Yesner and G. Pearson. eds. 2004. The Settlement of the American Continents: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Human Biogeography. University of Arizona Press.
Bernabeu Auban, J., A. Moreno Martin and C. M. Barton. 2012. Complex systems, social netowrks, and the evolution of social complexity in the east of Spain from the Neolithic to pre-Roman times. In: M. Cruz Berrocal, L. Garcia Sanjuan and A. Gilman. eds., The Prehistory of Iberia: Debating Early Social Stratification and the State. Routledge.
Diez Castillo, A., C. M. Barton, N. La Roca Cervigon and J. Bernabeu Auban. 2008. Landscape socioecology in the Serpis Valley (10000-4000 BP). In: A. Posluschny, K. Lambers and I. Herzog. eds., Layers of Perception: Proceedings of the 35th CAPP Conference, Berlin, 2007. Dr. Rudolf Habel GmbH Kolloquien zur Vor und Fruhgeschichte.
Indruszewski, G. and C. M. Barton. 2008. Cost surface DEM modeling of Viking Age seafaring in the Baltic Sea. Pp. 56-64 In: B. Frescher and A. Dakouri-Hild. eds., Beyon Illustration 2D and 3D Digital Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology. British Archaeological Reports.
Indruszewski, G. and C. M. Barton. 2008. Simulating sea surfaces for modeling Viking Age seafaring in the Baltic Sea. Pp. 616-630 In: J. Clark T. and E. Hagemeister. eds., Digital Discovery: Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage, CAA 2006. Computer applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology. Archaeolingua.
Current Projects/Teams
A Research Network for Computational Modeling in the Socioecological Sciences
Archived Projects/Teams
The Archaeology of Local Human Response to a Global Environmental Transformation
Experts by Keyword
agrarian societies
geospatial techniques
human ecology
landscape studies
spatial analysis
archaeology
algorithm development
data-fusion technology
ecological behavior
economic adaptation and climate change
geographic information science
geological processes
informatics
land use change
modeling and simulation
remote sensing
socioecology
