The dahliagram: An interdisciplinary tool for investigation, visualization, and communication of past human-environmental interaction
Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing collaboration of archaeologists, historians, and paleo-scientists. However, many studies still lack interdisciplinarity and overlook incompatibilities in spatiotemporal scaling of environmental and societal data and the...
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craaas:10.1126/sciadv.adj3142 2024-06-09T07:48:11+00:00 The dahliagram: An interdisciplinary tool for investigation, visualization, and communication of past human-environmental interaction Frachetti, Michael Di Cosmo, Nicola Esper, Jan Khalidi, Lamya Mauelshagen, Franz Oppenheimer, Clive Rohland, Eleonora Büntgen, Ulf 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj3142 https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adj3142 en eng American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science Advances volume 9, issue 47 ISSN 2375-2548 journal-article 2023 craaas https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adj3142 2024-05-16T12:56:03Z Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing collaboration of archaeologists, historians, and paleo-scientists. However, many studies still lack interdisciplinarity and overlook incompatibilities in spatiotemporal scaling of environmental and societal data and their uncertainties. Here, we argue for a strengthened commitment to collaborative work and introduce the “dahliagram” as a tool to analyze and visualize quantitative and qualitative knowledge from diverse disciplinary sources and epistemological backgrounds. On the basis of regional cases of past human mobility in eastern Africa, Inner Eurasia, and the North Atlantic, we develop three dahliagrams that illustrate pull and push factors underlying key phases of population movement across different geographical scales and over contrasting periods of time since the end of the last Ice Age. Agnostic to analytical units, dahliagrams offer an effective tool for interdisciplinary investigation, visualization, and communication of complex human-environmental interactions at a diversity of spatiotemporal scales. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic AAAS Resource Center (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Science Advances 9 47 |
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Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing collaboration of archaeologists, historians, and paleo-scientists. However, many studies still lack interdisciplinarity and overlook incompatibilities in spatiotemporal scaling of environmental and societal data and their uncertainties. Here, we argue for a strengthened commitment to collaborative work and introduce the “dahliagram” as a tool to analyze and visualize quantitative and qualitative knowledge from diverse disciplinary sources and epistemological backgrounds. On the basis of regional cases of past human mobility in eastern Africa, Inner Eurasia, and the North Atlantic, we develop three dahliagrams that illustrate pull and push factors underlying key phases of population movement across different geographical scales and over contrasting periods of time since the end of the last Ice Age. Agnostic to analytical units, dahliagrams offer an effective tool for interdisciplinary investigation, visualization, and communication of complex human-environmental interactions at a diversity of spatiotemporal scales. |
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Frachetti, Michael Di Cosmo, Nicola Esper, Jan Khalidi, Lamya Mauelshagen, Franz Oppenheimer, Clive Rohland, Eleonora Büntgen, Ulf The dahliagram: An interdisciplinary tool for investigation, visualization, and communication of past human-environmental interaction |
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Frachetti, Michael Di Cosmo, Nicola Esper, Jan Khalidi, Lamya Mauelshagen, Franz Oppenheimer, Clive Rohland, Eleonora Büntgen, Ulf |
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The dahliagram: An interdisciplinary tool for investigation, visualization, and communication of past human-environmental interaction |
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