Sean Bergin
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ECA 102D Tempe, AZ 85282
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Mail code: 2701Campus: Tempe
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Sean Bergin is a social scientist and archaeologist whose expertise includes computational modeling, agent-based modeling, geospatial technologies, long-term dynamics of socioecological systems, the spread of agriculture, and lithic technology.
PhD, Anthropology, Arizona State University
MA, Anthropology, University of Tulsa
BA, Anthropology University of Notre Dame
Books and Monographs
2021 Pardo Gordó, S. and S. Bergin (Eds). Simulating Transitions to Agriculture in Prehistory. Computational Social Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
2017 Henry, D. O., M. Belmaker and S. Bergin. The effect of terrain on Neanderthal ecology in the Levant. Quaternary International. 435: 94-105.
2016 Barton, C. M., I. Ullah, S. Bergin, H. Sarjoughian, G. Mayer, J.Bernabeu Aubán, A. Heimsath, M. Acevedo, J. Riel Salvatore, J. Arrowsmith. Experimental socioecology: Integrative science for anthropocene landscape dynamics. Anthropocene. 13: 34-45.
2015 Pardo Gordó, S., J. Bernabeu Aubán, O. García Puchol, C. M. Barton, S. Bergin. The origins of agriculture in Iberia: a computational model. Documenta Praehistorica, XLII: 117-131.
2015 Bernabeu Aubán, J., C. M. Barton, S. Pardo Gordó, S. Bergin. Modeling initial Neolithic dispersal. The first agricultural groups in West Mediterranean. Ecological Modelling. 307: 22–31.
2014 Henry, D. O., S. Kadowaki and S. Bergin. Reconstructing Early Neolithic Social and Economic Organization Through Spatial Analysis at Ayn Abū Nukhayla. American Antiquity. 79(3): 401-424.
2014 Rollins, N. D., C. M. Barton, S. Bergin, M. Janssen and A. Lee. A Computational Model Library for publishing model documentation and code. Environmental Modelling & Software. 61: 59-64.
2012 Barton, C. M., I. Ullah, and S. Bergin, H. Mitasova, and H. Sarjoughian. Looking for the Future in the Past: Long-Term Change in Socioecological Systems. Ecological Modelling. 241: 42-53.
2010 Barton, C. M., I. Ullah, and S. Bergin. Land use, water, and Mediterranean landscapes: modelling long-term dynamics of complex socio-ecological systems. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 368 (1931): 5275 -5297.
2008 Janssen, M., L. Na Alessa, C. M. Barton, S. Bergin and A. Lee. Towards a Community Framework for Agent-based Modelling. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. 11(2).
Articles in Edited Volumes
2021 Bergin, Sean. The Essential Geography of the Impresso-Cardial Neolithic Spread. In Simulating Transitions to Agriculture in Prehistory. Salvador Pardo-Gordó and Sean Bergin, eds. Pp. 29–46. Computational Social Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83643-6_3
2021 Bergin, Sean, and Salvador Pardo-Gordó. An Introduction to Simulating Transitions to Agriculture in Prehistory. In Simulating Transitions to Agriculture in Prehistory. Salvador Pardo-Gordó and Sean Bergin, eds. Pp. 1–16. Computational Social Sciences. Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83643-6_1
2017 Pardo Gordó, S., S. Bergin, J. Bernabeu Aubán, C. M. Barton. Alternative Stories of Agricultural Origins: The Neolithic Spread in the Iberian Peninsula. In Times of Neolithic Transition Along the Western Mediterranean, edited by O. García Puchol and D. C. Salazar García. Springer, New York pp 101-134.
2014 Bergin, S. Under the Microscope: Edge Wear Analysis of Chipped Stone Artifacts. In The Sands of Time: The Desert Neolithic Settlement at Ayn Abū Nukhayla, edited by D. Henry and J. Beaver, Ex Oriente: Berlin pp 193-203.
2014 Henry, D. O., S. Kadowaki and S. Bergin. Stratigraphic Identification and Spatial Examination of House Floors at Ayn Abū Nukhayla. In The Sands of Time: The Desert Neolithic Settlement at Ayn Abū Nukhayla, edited by D. Henry and J. Beaver, Ex Oriente: Berlin pp 287-313.
2012 Ullah, I. and S. Bergin. Modeling the Consequences of Village Site Location: Least Cost Path Modeling in a Coupled GIS and Agent-Based Model of Village Agropastoralism in Eastern Spain. In Least Cost Analysis of Social Landscapes: Archaeological Case Studies, edited by D.A. White and S. L. Surface-Evans, University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, pp 155-173.
2011 Henry, D. O., S. Bergin and S. Kadowaki. Tracing Floors and Fills in Early Neolithic Pithouses: An Example from the Excavation of Ayn Abū Nukhayla, Southern Jordan. In Between Sand and Sea. The Archaeology and Human Ecology of Southwestern Asia, edited by N.J. Conard, R.H. Meadow, A. Morales, and P. Drechsler. Festschrift in Honor of Hans-Peter Uerpmann. pp. 91-112. Kerns Verlag: Tübingen.
Additional Published Reports and Articles
2016 Diez-Castillo, A., O. Garcia-Puchol, J.Bernabeu Aubán, C. M. Barton, S. Pardo Gordó, G. Snitker, W. Cegelski, S. Bergin. Resiliencia y cambio durante el Holoceno en La Canal de Navarrés (Valencia): recientes trabajos de prospección. Archivo de Prehistoria Levantina. XXXI: 169-185.
2006 Bergin, S. and M. Senn. Book Review: Shovel Bum: Comix of Archaeological Field Work by Trent de Boer. Lithic Technology 31(2):147
Peer-Reviewed Computational Models
2022 Bergin, S., Michael Barton, Joshua Watts, Joshua Alland, and Rebecca Morss. CHIME ABM of Hurricane Evacuation. The Communicating Hazard Information in the Modern Environment (CHIME) agent-based model (ABM) is a Netlogo program that facilitates the analysis of information flow and protective decisions across space and time during hazardous weather events. Retrievable from: CoMSES Computational Model Library, doi:10.25937/fqah-sj53.
2015 Barton, C. M., Isaac Ullah, Gary Mayer, Sean Bergin, Hessam Sarjoughian, Helena Mitasova. MedLanD Modeling Laboratory v.1. This is a modeling environment that couples an agent-based model of small-holder agropastoral households with a cellular landscape evolution model that simulates changes in erosion, deposition, soils, and vegetation. Retrievable from: CoMSES Computational Model Library, www.openabm.org/model/4609/
2012 Bergin, S. Torsten Hägerstrand’s Spatial Innovation Diffusion Model. The purpose of this model is to understand the processes which create a “nebula-distribution,” a common spatial pattern. This model explores the way that the diffusion of ideas across a social network might produce this pattern. Retrievable from: CoMSES Computational Model Library, www.openabm.org/model/3163/
Computational Models
2021 Bergin, S. and J. Applegate. Model of Rental Evictions in Phoenix During the Covid-19 Pandemic. The purpose of this model is to explore the dynamics of residency and eviction for households renting in the greater Phoenix (Arizona) metropolitan area. Retrievable from: CoMSES Computational Model Library, https://www.comses.net/codebases/4db84f11-90a2-4d2e-a2c9-ea43574b5c46/
2020 Bergin, S. The Geographic Expansion Model. This model simulates different the effect of ecological conditions upon the spread of agriculture in the Western Mediterranean. Retrievable from: CoMSES Computational Model Library, https://www.comses.net/codebases/d57eded8-0513-43a1-9842-7a8404c32472/
2020 Claudine Gravel-Miguel, Sean Bergin. Game of Thrones model. CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrievable from: https://www.comses.net/codebases/08e45650-f6a9-4c26-a99f-2938e7d8cbdc/r…
2016 Bergin, S. The Cardial Spread Model. This model simulates different ecological conditions and spread hypotheses proposed for the introduction of agriculture in the Western Mediterranean. Retrievable from: CoMSES Computational Model Library, www.openabm.org/model/5278/
2015 Bergin, S., C. Michael Barton, Salvador Pardo Gordó, Joan Bernabeu Aubán. Neolithic Spread Model Version 1.0. This model simulates different spread hypotheses proposed for the introduction of agriculture on the Iberian peninsula. We include three dispersal types: neighborhood, leapfrog, and ideal despotic distribution (IDD). Retrievable from: CoMSES Computational Model Library, www.openabm.org/model/4447/
2013 Bergin, S., and Christopher Roberts. Relational Social Interaction Model of Migration (RSIMM). Current trends suggest that when individuals of different cultural backgrounds encounter one another, their social categories become entangled and create new hybridized or creole identities. To understand the effects this entanglement has on styles of material culture we created an agent-based model that plays out the process of cultural entanglement and tracks the results this has on human action. Retrievable from: CoMSES Computational Model Library, www.openabm.org/model/2297/
2008 Bergin, S. Hegmon's Model of Sharing. This is a replication of a model developed by Michelle Hegmon to aid an understanding the effect sharing strategies have on household survival. Retrievable from: CoMSES Computational Model Library, www.openabm.org/model/2217/
Courses
2025 Spring
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CAS 520 | Agent-Based Modeling |
CAS 520 | Agent-Based Modeling |
2024 Fall
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CAS 540 | Socioecological Complex Syst |
CAS 540 | Socioecological Complex Syst |
CAS 593 | Applied Project |
2024 Spring
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CAS 520 | Agent-Based Modeling |
CAS 520 | Agent-Based Modeling |
2023 Fall
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CAS 540 | Socioecological Complex Syst |
CAS 540 | Socioecological Complex Syst |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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CAS 520 | Agent-Based Modeling |
CAS 520 | Agent-Based Modeling |
2022 Fall
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CAS 540 | Socioecological Complex Syst |
CAS 540 | Socioecological Complex Syst |
2022 Spring
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CAS 540 | Socioecological Complex Syst |
CAS 540 | Socioecological Complex Syst |
2021 Fall
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CAS 540 | Socioecological Complex Syst |
CAS 540 | Socioecological Complex Syst |
2019 Fall
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ASM 591 | Seminar |