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View article: Interactive Storytelling of Complex Systems Through Metaphor
Interactive Storytelling of Complex Systems Through Metaphor Open
This case study presents four web-based interactive visualization projects we developed to communicate complexity science research to broad, non-expert audiences. Each project employs metaphorical structures—such as forests, webs, and flow…
View article: CRISES AVERTED How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural- Demographic Crises
CRISES AVERTED How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural- Demographic Crises Open
Historians and social scientists have long been preoccupied with understanding and documenting periods of crisis. Such emphasis is only growing, and becoming more pressing, as the world continues to face a number of interrelated stressors …
View article: CRISES AVERTED. How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural-Demographic Crises
CRISES AVERTED. How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural-Demographic Crises Open
Historians and social scientists have long been preoccupied with understanding and documenting periods of crisis. Such emphasis is only growing, and becoming more pressing, as the world continues to face a number of interrelated stressors …
View article: Exploring the relationship between sociopolitical complexity, ideology, and authority in world history
Exploring the relationship between sociopolitical complexity, ideology, and authority in world history Open
Scholars from a wide array of disciplines have sought to identify the core features underpinning cohesion and cooperation within increasingly large, complex, and internally diverse societies. Previous work has suggested that as societies g…
View article: Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE
Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE Open
The scientific understanding of the complex dynamics of global history – from the rise and spread of states to their declines and falls, from their peaceful interactions with economic or diplomatic exchanges to violent confrontations – req…
View article: Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE
Cliopatria - A geospatial database of world-wide political entities from 3400BCE to 2024CE Open
The scientific understanding of the complex dynamics of global history – from the rise and spread of states to their declines and falls, from their peaceful interactions with economic or diplomatic exchanges to violent confrontations – req…
View article: Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate
Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate Open
Climate variability and natural hazards like floods and earthquakes can act as environmental shocks or socioecological stressors leading to instability and suffering throughout human history. Yet, societies experience a wide range of outco…
View article: Navigating Polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate
Navigating Polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate Open
Climate variability and natural hazards like floods and earthquakes can act as environmental shocks or socioecological stressors leading to instability and suffering throughout human history. Yet, societies experience a wide range of outco…
View article: Datafile with Severity of Consequences Data from Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate
Datafile with Severity of Consequences Data from Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate Open
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View article: Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank Open
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise of moralizing religions in
\nworld history have been the focus of intense debate. Progress has been
\nlimited by the availability of quantitative data to test competing
\ntheories, by diverg…
View article: Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses
Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses Open
During the Holocene, the scale and complexity of human societies increased markedly. Generations of scholars have proposed different theories explaining this expansion, which range from broadly functionalist explanations, focusing on the p…
View article: seshatdb (Equinox Packaged Data)
seshatdb (Equinox Packaged Data) Open
This is the first official release of Equinox Data on GitHub / Zenodo.
View article: seshatdb (Equinox Packaged Data)
seshatdb (Equinox Packaged Data) Open
This is the first official release of Equinox Data on GitHub / Zenodo.
View article: CRISES AVERTED How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural- Demographic Crises
CRISES AVERTED How A Few Past Societies Found Adaptive Reforms in the Face of Structural- Demographic Crises Open
Historians and social scientists have long been preoccupied with understanding and documenting periods of crisis. Such emphasis is only growing, and becoming more pressing, as the world continues to face a number of interrelated stressors …
View article: Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution
Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution Open
What have been the causes and consequences of technological evolution in world history? In particular, what propels innovation and diffusion of military technologies, details of which are comparatively well preserved and which are often se…
View article: Disentangling the Evolutionary Drivers of Social Complexity in Human History: a Comprehensive Test of Hypotheses
Disentangling the Evolutionary Drivers of Social Complexity in Human History: a Comprehensive Test of Hypotheses Open
During the Holocene the scale and complexity of human societies increased dramatically. Generations of scholars have proposed different theories explaining this expansion, which range from functionalist explanations, focusing on the provis…
View article: Rise of the War Machines: Charting the Evolution of Military Technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution
Rise of the War Machines: Charting the Evolution of Military Technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution Open
The causes and consequences of technological evolution in world history have been much debated. Of particular importance in many of the theoretical and empirical studies on this topic is innovation in military technologies, details of whic…
View article: The Equinox2020 Seshat Data Release
The Equinox2020 Seshat Data Release Open
This report describes the current canonical time-series dataset named “Equinox2020,” a subset of Seshat: Global History Databank data for a well-curated list of polities and variables available on the Seshat Data Browser. The report provid…
View article: Analyzing Covid-19 Data using SIRD Models
Analyzing Covid-19 Data using SIRD Models Open
Summary The goal of this analysis is to estimate the effects of the diverse government intervention measures implemented to mitigate the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic. We use a process model based on a compartmental epidemiological frame…
View article: A structured open dataset of government interventions in response to COVID-19
A structured open dataset of government interventions in response to COVID-19 Open
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, governments have implemented a wide range of nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs). Monitoring and documenting government strategies during the COVID-19 crisis is crucial to understand the progression…
View article: CCCSL: CSH Covid-19 Control Strategies List
CCCSL: CSH Covid-19 Control Strategies List Open
This dataset records the government interventions in response to Covid-19 and their respective timelines of implementation in .csv format
View article: Explaining the Rise of Moralizing Religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank
Explaining the Rise of Moralizing Religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank Open
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise of moralizing religions in world history have been the focus of intense debate. Progress has been limited by the availability of quantitative data to test competing theories, by divergent id…
View article: Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization
Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization Open
Significance Do human societies from around the world exhibit similarities in the way that they are structured and show commonalities in the ways that they have evolved? To address these long-standing questions, we constructed a database o…