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Read ODATE 4.4 - 4.4.1.3 (just the opening two sections)
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Download and install Netlogo for your machine (there is an option called ‘Netlogo Web’, which runs in your browser. You can give that a shot, but I know that the bits below work on the desktop version. I haven’t tested on the web version.)
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Option A: Follow along in Chapter 1 of the Romanowska, Wren, & Crabtree book, and build the model of the out-of-Africa dispersal of modern humans; the code repo is at github. (You can get the full book & all the code, if you’re interested, at https://santafeinstitute.github.io/ABMA/)
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Option B: Tom Brughmans has an excellent tutorial that builds a simulation on top of the Stanford ORBIS model: https://archaeologicalnetworks.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/netlogo_network-structures_v0-1.pdf The model can be downloaded at: https://www.comses.net/codebases/92b5dc6c-a124-4647-91d4-e7365264eac8/releases/1.0.0/ but do try to build your own version following the tutorial.
ORBIS network data is at https://purl.stanford.edu/mn425tz9757
I used to also give my own tutorial as an option here, but frankly, Romanowska, Wren, & Crabtree’s volume is the best guide out there now, so I only provide the links below for those who are interested:
I wrote a guide to getting started with Netlogo that simulates trading pottery around a network, here: https://digitalarchaeology.berghahnbooks.com/digital-projects/an-enchantment-of-digital-archaeology/appendix-a/ . (The full code is here, as ‘pot_trade_model_code.nlogo’ but you’ll still need to read the walkthrough. Incidentally, that link takes you to the Github repo for my publisher; you can take a copy of all that code by going there and then hitting the ‘fork’ button.)