Dr. J. Daniel Rogers is Curator Emeritus of Archaeology and former chair of the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History.  He received B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Oklahoma and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. Over his career he has conducted archaeological field research in the Southeast, Southwest, the Great Plains, the Caribbean, Mexico, Peru, and eastern Asia.  Since 2002 he has studied the early empires of Inner Asia and developed computational models to analyze the social and demographic implications of climate change. His research topics also include colonialism, culture contact, and the origins of complex societies.

Article

• Stephens, Lucas, Fuller, Dorian, Boivin, Nicole, Rick, Torben C., Gauthier, Nicolas, Kay, Andrea, Marwick, Ben, Armstrong, Chelsey Geralda Denise, Barton, C. Michael, Denham, Tim, Douglass, Kristina, Driver, Jonathan, Janz, Lisa, Roberts, Patrick, Rogers, J. Daniel, Thakar, Heather, Altaweel, Mark, Johnson, Amber L., Sampietro Vattuone, Maria Marta, Aldenderfer, Mark, Archila, Sonia, Artioli, Gilberto, Bale, Martin T., Beach, Timothy, Borrell, Ferran et al. 2019. "Archaeological assessment reveals Earth's early transformation through land use." Science, 365, (6456) 897–902. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aax1192. 2019
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2019. "The Complexity of Nomadic Empires." Social Evolution & History, 18, (2) 145–162. https://doi.org/10.30884/seh/2019.02.08. 2019
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2017. "Dynamic Trajectories, Adaptive Cycles, and Complexity in Culture Change." Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 24, (4) 1326–1355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-017-9314-6. 2017
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2017. "Inner Asian polities and their built environment." Archaeological Research in Asia, 11 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ara.2017.03.002. 2017
• Rogers, J. Daniel and Cegielski, Wendy H. 2017. "Opinion: Building a better past with the help of agent-based modeling." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114, (49) 12841–12844. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718277114. 2017
• Cegielski, Wendy H. and Rogers, J. Daniel. 2016. "Rethinking the role of Agent-Based Modeling in archaeology." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 41 283–298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2016.01.009. 2016
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2013. "Pastoralist Mobility and Social Controls In Inner Asia: Experiments Using Agent-Based Modeling." Structure and Dynamics, 6, (2). 2013
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2012. "Comment on "Multi-Regional Emergence of Mobile Pastoralism and Non-Uniform Institutional Complexity Across Eurasia"." Current Anthropology, 53, (1) 27–28. 2012
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2012. "Inner Asian States and Empires: Theories and Synthesis." Journal of Archaeological Research, 20, (3) 205–256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10814-011-9053-2. 2012
• Rogers, J. Daniel, Nichols, Teresa, Emmerich, Theresa, Latek, Maciej, and Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio. 2012. "Modeling scale and variability in human–environmental interactions in Inner Asia." Ecological Modelling, 241 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.11.025. 2012
• Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio, Rogers, J. Daniel, and Hailegiorgis, Atesmachew. 2011. "Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Agent-Based Model Simulations for Sustainable Development." ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Transaction in Intelligent Systems and Technologies, 3, (1). https://doi.org/10.1145/2036264.2036274. 2011
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2011. "Stable Isotope Analysis and Diet in Eastern Oklahoma." Southeastern Archaeology, 30 97–107. 2011
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2009. "Simulating the Past to Explore the Future." AnthroNotes, 30, (2) 8–9. https://doi.org/10.5479/10088/22443. 2009
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2007. "The Contingencies of State Formation in Eastern Inner Asia." Asian Perspectives, 46, (2) 249–274. https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2007.0017. 2007

Book

• Alessa, Lilian, Kliskey, Andrew, Altaweel, Mark, Barton, Michael, Bankes, Steve, Bondizio, Eduardo, Brown, Dan, Feddema, Johannes, Grier, Colin, Liu, Jianguo, Moran, Emilio, Ozik, Jonathan, Park, Thomas, Rand, William, Rogers, J. Daniel, and Wang, Shaowen. 2015. Best Practices for Integrating Social Science into Social Ecological Systems Science: Future Directions for Building a More Resilient America. Moscow, Idaho: Center for Resilient Communities, University of Idaho. 2015
• Payette, Nicholas, Bujorianu, Marius, Ropella, Glen, Cline, Ken, Schank, Jeffrey, Miller, Matt, Jonsson, Sara, Gulyas, Laszlo, Legendi, Richard, Bochmann, Olaf, Luís, de Sousa, Voudouris, Vlasios, Kiose, Daniil, Szufel, Przemyslaw, Saul, Steve, McManus, John, Scarano, Vittorio, Cordasco, Gennaro, Hollander, Chris, Wiegand, Paul, Kazakova, Vera, Hrolenok, Brian, Rogers, J. Daniel, Schader, Michael, Luke, Sean et al. 2013. Future MASON Directions: Community Recommendations, Report of the 2013 MASON NSF Work. In George Mason University Computer Science Technical Report 2013-9. 2013
• Sievert, April K., Rogers, J. Daniel, and Urcid, Javier. 2011. Artifacts from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology, 49. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810223.49.1. 2011
• Rogers, J. Daniel and Fitzhugh, William W. 2007. Progress Report on the 2004 Memorandum of Understanding: Report on the MOU between The Mongolian Academy of Sciences, The National Museum of Mongolian History, and the Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C.: Arctic Studies Center. 2007

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• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2018. "Strategies of Empire Expansion." In The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes. 1 ed. Düring, Bleda S. and Stek, Tesse D., editors. 301–323. Cambridge University Press. 2018
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2015. "Empire Dynamics and Inner Asia." In Complexity of Interaction Along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the First Millennium CE. 73–88. 7 2015
• Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio, Honeychurch, William, and Rogers, J. Daniel. 2015. "MASON Hierarchies: A Long-Range Agent Model of Power, Conflict, and Environment in Inner Asia." In Complexity of Interaction Along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the First Millennium CE. Brosseder, Ursula, Reichert, Susanne, and Stickler, Timo, editors. 89–113. Bonn: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn. 7 in Bonn Contributions to Asian Archaeology. 2015
• Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio, Linford, SamanthaJo, and Rogers, J. Daniel. 2015. "The Sustainability of Wealth among Nomads: An Agent-Based Approach." In Mathematics and Archaeology. Barcelo, Juan A. and Bogdanovic, Igor, editors. 431–448. CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b18530-28. 2015
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2013. "Empire Dynamics." In The Complexity of Interaction Along the Eurasian Steppe Zone in the First Millennium AD: Empires, Cities, Nomads and Farmers. Bemmann, J. and Brosseder, U., editors. Bonn: Bonn University Press. 2013
• Cioffi-Revilla, C., Rogers, J. Daniel, and Latek, M. 2011. "Computing the Steppes: Data Analysis for Agent-Based Models of Polities in Inner Asia." In Xiongnu Archaeology: Multidisciplinary Perspectives of the First Steppe Empire in Inner Asia. Brosseder, Ursula and Miller, Brian, editors. 97–110. Bonn: Bonn University Press. 2011
• Sievert, April K. and Rogers, J. Daniel. 2011. "History of Spiro Research." In Artifacts from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Sievert, April K. and Rogers, J. Daniel, editors. 13–18. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 49 in Contributions to Anthropology. 2011
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2011. "Spiro and the Development of a Regional Social System." In Artifacts from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma. Sievert, April K. and Rogers, J. Daniel, editors. 1–12. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. 49 in Contributions to Anthropology. 2011
• Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio, Rogers, J. Daniel, and Latek, Maciej. 2010. "The MASON HouseholdsWorld Model of Pastoral Nomad Societie." In Simulating Interacting Agents and Social Phenomena: The Second World Congress. Takadama, Keiki, Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio, and Deffaunt, Guillaumen, editors. 193–204. Tokyo: Springer. 2010
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2009. "Ancient Cities of the Steppe." In Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. Fitzhugh, William W., Rossabi, Morris, and Honeychurch, William, editors. 127–131. Washington: Mongolian Preservation Foundation. 2009
• Rogers, J. Daniel and Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio. 2009. "Expanding Empires and the Analysis of Change." In Current Archaeological Research in Mongolia: Papers from the 1st International Conference on Archaeological Research in Mongolia held in Ulaanbaatar, August 19th-23rd, 2007. Bemmann, Jan, Parzinger, Hermann, Pohl, Ernst, and Tseveendorzh, Damdinsuren, editors. 445–459. Bonn: Bonn University Press. 2009
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2009. "Spiro Mounds Archaeological Park." In Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia. Volume 1, Northeast and Southeast. McManamon, Francis P., Cordell, Linda S., Lightfoot, Kent G., and Milner, George R., editors. 324–327. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2009
• Rogers, J. Daniel. 2009. "The Harlan Site." In Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia. Volume 1: Northeast and Southeast. McManamon, Francis P., Cordell, Linda S., Lightfoot, Kent G., and Milner, George R., editors. 322–323. Westport: Greenwood Press. 2009
• Cioffi-Revilla, C., Luke, S., Parker, D. C., Rogers, J. Daniel, Fitzhugh, William W., Honeychurch, William, Frohlich, Bruno, DePriest, Paula T., and Amartuvshin, C. 2007. "Agent-Based Modeling Simulation of Social Adaptation and Long-Term Change in Inner Asia." In Advancing Social Simulation: The First World Congress. Takahashi, S., Sallach, D., and Rouchier, J., editors. 189–200. Tokyo: Springer. 2007