Professor Michael Barton, School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Arizona State University, USA
C. Michael Barton is Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity at Arizona State University, and Visiting Research Professor at the Universitat de València. A Fullbright Senior Fellow, he holds a PhD in archaeology and geosciences from the University of Arizona. Barton's research interests centre around human ecology and the dynamics of Quaternary landscapes; he has ongoing projects in the American Southwest and the Mediterranean, where he heads an international, multidisciplinary team studying the long-term socioecology of prehistoric hunter/gatherers and the beginnings of agriculture. He is active in the development and application of spatial technologies and modelling in archaeology, serving on the GRASS GIS development team and directing the NSF-supported Open Agent-Based Modelling Consortium which promotes computational modeling in the social and natural sciences. Barton's diverse publications span prehistoric technology, land-use and ecology, geoarchaeology, Darwinian theory, prehistoric rock art, and the peopling of the Americas.