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Lessons Learned: Creating Tutorials to Teach Agent-Based Modelling to Archaeologists Cover

Lessons Learned: Creating Tutorials to Teach Agent-Based Modelling to Archaeologists

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|Dec 2025

Figures & Tables

Table 1

Conferences, events and situations where workshops were held at which the tutorials were tested.

CONFERENCE OR EVENTPERIODONLINE, IN PERSON OR HYBRIDNUMBER OF PARTICIPANTSNUMBER OF REGISTRATIONS
CAA AmsterdamApril 2023In person3653
EAA BelfastAugust 2023In person21No registration
CAA-DE/NL-Fl Online workshopOctober 2023Online4076
ReuvensdagenNovember 2023In person13No registration
CAA-UKNovember 2023Hybrid53No registration
Leiden (course)December 2023In person11No registration
AarhusJanuary/February 2024Online176>500
SaxionMarch 2023-January 2024In person18No registration
Total368>628
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Figure 1

Screenshot of lesson 3 in tutorial 1 showing the population dynamics of the Long House Valley in the Artificial Anasazi model created by Axtell et al. (2002).

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Figure 2

The nationality of the participants that filled in the survey.

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Figure 3

The gender and age distribution of the respondents for each workshop.

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Figure 4

The computer skills of the respondents.

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Figure 5

Respondents knowledge of ABM per event (top), and knowledge of the various software packages for ABM (bottom), before participating in the workshops.

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Figure 6

Respondents opinion on the quality of theory on ABM faceted out by event.

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Figure 7

Impression of various workshops (CAA 2023 in Amsterdam and EAA 2023 in Belfast) with participants working.

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Figure 8

Respondents rating of the workshop in general faceted for each event.

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Figure 9

Respondents rating of the teaching material (top) and teachers (bottom) in general faceted for each event.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.241 | Journal eISSN: 2514-8362
Language: English
Submitted on: Sep 1, 2025
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Accepted on: Nov 24, 2025
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Published on: Dec 30, 2025
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Ronald M. Visser, Karsten Lambers, Kenneth Aitchison, Annemarie Jutte, Doug Rocks-Macqueen, Laura van der Knaap, Iza Romanowska, Tom Brughmans, Jeroen Linssen, Adam Pažout, published by Ubiquity Press
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