A01=Helen Dawson
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agency
ancient DNA
Author_Helen Dawson
Author_John Terrell
Author_Marc Kissel
Author_Mark Golitko
Bayes' Theorem
categorical analysis
Category=NHA
Category=NKA
consilience
decolonization
dynamic relational analysis
DYRA
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forthcoming
historical explanation
historical foresight
historical justification
interpretation
Mediterranean Europe
methodology
migration
model building
models
Neolithic Revolution
networks
New Guinea
Pacific Islands
Partial Mantel test
plausibility
probability
relational analysis
relational contingency
scientific models
SNA
social network analysis
statistical analysis
theory
voyaging
Product details
- ISBN 9781807580278
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2026
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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How do researchers use dynamic network analysis (DYRA) to explore, model, and try to understand the complex global history of our species? Reduced to bare bones, network analysis is a way of understanding the world around us — a way called relational thinking — that is liberating but challenging. Using this handbook, researchers learn to develop historical and archaeological research questions anchored in DYRA. Undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professional historians and archaeologists can consult on issues that range from hypothesis-driven research to critiquing dominant historical narratives, especially those that have tended to ignore the diversity of the archaeological record.
John Terrell is Regenstein Curator of Pacific Anthropology at Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. His most recent books are A Talent for Friendship: Rediscovery of a Remarkable Trait (Oxford, 2014), and Understanding the Human Mind: Why You Shouldn't Trust What Your Brain is Telling You (written with his son Gabriel Stowe Terrell, Routledge, 2020).
