Michael Barton
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Fax: 480-965-7671
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ECA 105 or SHESC 152A Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 2402Campus: Tempe
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Michael Barton is a complex systems scientist who combines anthropology, archaeology, earth science, and information technologies to study long-term socioecological dynamics and interactions of people and landscapes in the Anthropocene. His research spans human ecology and land use by hunter/gatherers in the Pleistocene, the emergence of coupled human and natural landscapes in the Holocene, and feedbacks between people and the environment in the modern world.
He has directed field and laboratory research on hunter/gatherers and small-scale agricultural societies in the Mediterranean, western Eurasia more broadly, and western North America.
Barton's expertise includes Pleistocene and early Holocene prehistory, Quaternary landscapes, geospatial technologies, computational modeling, complex systems science, evolutionary theory, and lithic technology.
Barton is a professor in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change, Associate Director of the School of Complex Adaptive Systems, and Director of the interdisciplinary Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity.
- Ph.D. Anthropology; minor: Geosciences, University of Arizona
- M.A. Anthropology; minor: Geosciences, University of Arizona
- B.A. Anthropology, University of Kansas
Barton's 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). He has done fieldwork in Spain, Bosnia, and various locales in North America and has 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, increasingly critical to archaeological research and social science in general, and are an important focus of his research, especially emphasizing computational modeling, spatial technologies (including GIS and remote sensing), data science, and visualization.
Barton is a member of the open source GRASS GIS international development team that is making cutting edge spatial technologies available to researchers and students around the world.
The Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics project, which Barton directs, combines computational modeling and interdisciplinary fielswork to study the emergence of coupled human and natural landscapes, and long-term interactions of agricultural land-use practices and landscape change in the ancient Mediterranean, with support from the National Science Biocomplexity in the Environment and Coupled Natural and Human Systems programs.
Barton is the Executive Director of the Open Modeling Foundation, an international consortium supporting community standards for computational modeling across the social, environmental, ecological, and geophysical sciences.
He also directs the CoMSES Network, an international research network and NSF Big Data Spoke facility to promote open science, knowledge sharing, reproducibility, and best practices in emerging cybertools in the socio-ecological sciences.
Research Projects
Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics
CHIME (Communicating Hazard Information in the Modern Environment) in collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
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Courses
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASM 300 | Anthropological Sciences Sem |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
SOS 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 592 | Research |
BIO 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
CAS 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
2022 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
ASM 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
SOS 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
ASM 565 | Quantitative Archaeology |
ASB 592 | Research |
2021 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASM 568 | GIS and Spatial Technologies |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 584 | Internship |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
ASM 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
ASM 300 | Anthropological Sciences Sem |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
BIO 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2020 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 584 | Internship |
ASB 326 | Human Impacts on Ancient Envir |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 499 | Individualized Instruction |
ASB 584 | Internship |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 493 | Honors Thesis |
ASB 492 | Honors Directed Study |
ASB 592 | Research |
BIO 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
ASM 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
SOS 570 | Fundamentals of CAS Science |
ASM 565 | Quantitative Archaeology |
2019 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
2019 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
2018 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 799 | Dissertation |
ASM 579 | Proposal Writing |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
2018 Summer
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 326 | Human Impacts on Ancient Envir |
ASB 326 | Human Impacts on Ancient Envir |
ASB 375 | Humans and the Environment |
ASB 375 | Humans and the Environment |
ASM 338 | Anthropological Field Session |
ASM 338 | Anthropological Field Session |
ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 792 | Research |
2018 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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ASB 590 | Reading and Conference |
ASB 592 | Research |
ASB 792 | Research |
ASB 790 | Reading and Conference |
ASM 300 | Anthropological Sciences Sem |
ASB 580 | Practicum |
ASB 799 | Dissertation |
Barton's courses include Scholarly Inquiry, Fundamentals of Complex Adaptive Systems Sciences, Human Impacts on the Environment, GIS and Spatial Technologies in Anthropological Research, Quantitative and Formal Methods in Anthropology, Anthropological Sciences Seminar, Geoarchaeology, Lithic Technology, and Origins of Agriculture.
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