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.

Department of Anthropology Washington University in St Louis 1 Brookings Drive CB 1114 St Louis MO 63130 USA

Department of Geography Faculty of Science Masaryk University 613 00 Brno Czech Republic

Department of Geography Johannes Gutenberg University Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Germany

Department of Geography University of Cambridge Cambridge CB2 3EN UK

Department of History University of Bielefeld 33615 Bielefeld Germany

Department of Social Anthropology University of Bielefeld 33615 Bielefeld Germany

Global Change Research Institute Czech Academy of Sciences 603 00 Brno Czech Republic

Institute for Advanced Study Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544 USA

School of Cultural Heritage Northwest University Xi'an China

Swiss Federal Research Institute 8903 Birmensdorf Switzerland

Université Côte d'Azur CNRS CEPAM 24 avenue des Diables Bleus 06300 Nice France

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