A Network model of simple societies inspired by Joseph Tainter's theory of the collapse of complex societies, described in: **https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.06698v1.pdf** **Based on the works of Joseph Tainter:** Tainter, J. A. (1988).The collapse of complex societies. New studies in archaeology. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press ## Installation Obtain the code and change into directory ```bash git clone git@github.com:flo-schu/tainter cd tainter ``` Create environment, activate it and install model package. the [datalad] option installs the datalad packages which are necessary to download the dataset. ```bash conda create -n tainter conda activate tainter conda install python=3.9 pip install -e .[datalad] ``` Install the pre-simulated dataset from the open-science foundation (osf.io) into the folder_publication data ```bash datalad clone https://osf.io/u897c/ publication_data ``` You should be done. All anylses from the paper can be conducted by executing the jupyter notebook `scripts/analysis.ipynb` ```bash jupyter lab scripts/analysis.ipynb ```