Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 **Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture**
_“We reconstructed six-generation pedigrees at both sites including up to 450 closely related individuals, allowing per-generation demographic profiling of the communities. Despite different ancestry, these pedigrees together with large networks of distant relatedness show absence of consanguinity, patrilineal pattern with female exogamy, multiple reproductive partnerships (for example, levirate) and direct correlation of biological connectivity with archaeological markers of social status.”_
Wang, K., Tobias, B., Pany-Kucera, D. et al. Ancient DNA reveals reproductive barrier despite shared Avar-period culture. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08418-5.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Biology #Anthropology #Genomics #Science #Ancient #DNA #History #Academia #Academics @science @biology @anthropology
🔴 📚 **How books were made in the 15th-18th centuries**
🔗 Just My Type: Making Letters at the Type Foundry (https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2024/12/17/just-my-type-making-letters-at-the-type-foundry/)
🔗 Papermaking: A Rags to Riches Story (https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2024/12/05/papermaking-a-rags-to-riches-story/)
🔗 Don’t Get Out of Sorts: Composing Text (https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025/01/15/dont-get-out-of-sorts-composing-text/)
#EarlyModern #BookHistory #BookAnatomy #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon @earlymodern
🔴 🇮🇶 **Ancient Artifacts Unearthed in Iraq Shed Light on Hidden History of Mesopotamia**
Eddy Duryea ’13
_“Kurd Qaburstan is believed to be ancient Qabra, an important regional center mentioned in the records of other city-states,” Earley-Spadoni says. “The presence of writing, monumental architecture, and other administrative artifacts in the lower town palace further supports this identification since the site must have been an important city of its time.”_
#History #Histodon #HIstodons #Research #Archaeology #Archaeodons #BronzeAge #Ancient #Iraq #MiddleEast #Asia #Mesopotamia @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 🌎 **A map of East and West Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana : with the islands of Cuba, Bahama, and the countries surrounding the Gulf of Mexico, with the tract of the Spanish galleons, and of our fleets thro' the Straits of Florida, from the best authorities (1781)**
#Image attribution: Bew, John; Lodge, John, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_map_of_East_and_West_Florida,_Georgia,_and_Louisiana_-_with_the_islands_of_Cuba,_Bahama,_and_the_countries_surrounding_the_Gulf_of_Mexico,_with_the_tract_of_the_Spanish_galleons,_and_of_our_fleets_LOC_79691140.jpg
#History #Map #Cartography #GulfOfMexico #C18th #18thCentury
🔴 📚 🎥 **Five reasons to read more quality history books in 2025**
The Burning Archive
#Video length: ten minutes and thirty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmoHJvCWiIU
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 **Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)**
"Through his descriptions and diagrams, illustrations and sketches Zahn shows readers the workings of the camera obscura and magic lantern"
🔗 https://flashbak.com/johann-zahn-oculus-artificialis-472978/.
#EarlyModern #History #Tech #Technology #Inventor #Images #Science @science @earlymodern
🔴 🗺️ **Adding Color to the World: How Maps Got Toned**
Seanna Tsung
_“Some map publishers had colorists in house, others jobbed the work out. It is thought that a certain amount of the coloring throughout the period under discussion was done at home by women, who were mostly excluded from commercial map production unless they were daughters, wives or widows of male cartographers, engravers or publishers.”_
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2025/01/adding-color-to-the-world-how-maps-got-toned/.
🔴 **Insulting Etymology + Savage Insults from History**
Jess Zafarris
_“Flyting, earlier simply a word for an argument, is a poetic war of words or entertaining debate in which the two contestants attempt to “out-bard” each other, so to speak. (It’s basically the predecessor to a rap battle.) The humor is often crude and escalates into rhythmic strings of insults.”_
🔗 https://uselessetymology.com/2025/01/10/insulting-etymology-savage-insults-from-history/
#History #Etymology #Linguistics #English #Language @linguistics
🔴 🇺🇸 **Border Control in Early America**
Christa Dierksheide
_“In the decades preceding the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, citizenship was conferred by states, not the federal government. Legislatures exercised enormous power over migration into and out of states in order to control—and engineer—the path to citizenship. Because these lawmakers wanted to restrict citizenship within their respective states to white property holders, they designed punitive immigration policies that either heavily restricted or prohibited Black settlement. Classifying people of color as “aliens” eliminated the possibility of Black citizenship.”_
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/01/08/border-control-in-early-america/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Border #C19th #19thCentury @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **This Month in Movietone History**
@BritishMovietone
_"Momentous historical events that occurred during the month of January"_
#Video length: seventeen minutes and twenty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24C1jlPOAFY
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Churchill #Eisenhower #Leningrad #HarryTruman #JFK @histodon @histodons
🔴 🌎 **1818 Pinkerton Map of North America. Geographicus**
_“This is an extremely unusual mapping of North America prepared for the 1818 American edition of Pinkerton's Atlas. Although the basic engraving remains identical to Pinkerton's Atlas of 1813, published in London, the coloration has been updated to reflect American sensibilities.”_
#Map #Maps #Cartography #History #C19th #19thCentury #Canada #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
#Image attribution: John Pinkerton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1818_Pinkerton_Map_of_North_America_-_Geographicus.jpg.
🔴 🎙️ **Trial and Error: Galileo and the Inquisition**
_“The philosophical issues at the heart of the notorious condemnation of Galileo and Copernican astronomy.”_
🔗 https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/galileo-inquisition
#Podcast #History #Philosophy #Galileo #Inquisition @philosophy
🔴 🎥 **The Story of the Vikings is the Story of Us. Søren Sindbæk**
Vikingology: The Art and Science of the Viking Age
_“In one of our most wide-ranging conversations yet, we discussed why hair combs were the iPhone of the Viking Age, the maritime legacy of the Nordic people, whether C.J.’s salt hypothesis holds any weight, the ethics of archaeology, and how Vikings get interpreted and misinterpreted in the modern era, plus more.”_
#Video length: one hour and thirty-eight minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmyfZ4P3G4Y
#Podcast #Vikings #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 **Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?**
_“I am arguing that it is likely that the men buried in the princely burials at Prittlewell and Sutton Hoo mound 1 served, with a group of their contemporaries, as cavalry soldiers in the Foederati recruited by Tiberius in 575 in the wars with the Sasanians on the eastern front.”_
Helen Gittos, Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?, The English Historical Review, 2025;, ceae213, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae213.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Europe #AngloSaxons #SuttonHoo #Byzantinum #Asia #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **A Very Basic Introduction To Ancient Carthage**
MoAn Inc.
#Video length: thirty-two minutes and twenty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cuoGKSo8-A
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Carthage @histodon @histodons
🔴 🗺️ **Johnson's Prussia Norway, Sweden and Denmark (1862)**
_“Includes Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Prussia. Also includes most, and in some cases all, of Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of western Russia, though they are not the direct focus of the map.”_
#History #Cartography #Map #Prussia #Norway #Sweden #Denmark #Europe
#Image attribution: Alvin Jewett Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1862_Johnson%27s_Map_of_Scandinavia,_Norway,_Sweden,_Finland_%5E_Denmark_-_Geographicus_-_Scandinavia-johnson-1862.jpg.
🔴 **High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe**
_“We reveal evidence of the southward and/or eastward expansion of individuals who probably spoke Germanic languages and who had Scandinavian-related ancestry in the first half of the first millennium ce. We note that ‘Scandinavian-related’ in this context relates to the ancient genomes available, and so it is entirely possible that these processes were driven, for example, from regions in northern-central Europe. This could be consistent with the attraction of the greater wealth, which tended to build up among Rome’s immediate neighbours and may have played a major role in vectors of migration internal to communities in Europe who lived beyond the Roman frontier52.”_
Speidel, L., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe. Nature 637, 118–126 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08275-2
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #Genetics #Science #History #Medieval #Medievodons #Scandinavia #Europe #Migration #Migrants #Academia #Academics @science @medievodons @archaeodons
🔴 **491 BC - 1902 AD - A Long Time Between Drinks**
_“ In 499 BC, the Persian Achaemenid Empire tried unsuccessfully to conquer various ancient Greek city-states. Finally in 449 BC a de facto peace was concluded and the Greco-Persian Wars effectively ended. In 1902, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah of Persia and George I of Greece agreed to de jure recognition and after 2393 years established diplomatic relations. This of course ignores a long history of Greco-Persian interactions thereafter throughout Antiquity, not least the Peace of Antalcidas, the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Seleucid Empire, or even the long history of the Byzantine-Persian wars.”_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Greece #Europe #Persia #Asia #Cartoon @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Samuel D. Ehrhart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:491_BC_-_1902_AD_-_A_Long_Time_Between_Drinks.jpg.
🔴 **Restoring At-Risk Assyrian Cultural Heritage: Archaeologists Recover Remarkably Preserved Shrines from a Temple in Iraq **
_“In its third season, project excavations unearthed two new shrines within the sprawling Ninurta Temple. Inside the larger shrine, the team found a monumental stone dais (a low platform for the statue of a god or goddess worshipped in the temple (measuring about 12 ft. by 9.5 ft.) with a cuneiform inscription, presumably of King Ashurnasirpal II.”_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Assriya #Iraq #MiddleEast #Asia @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century**
Dwarkesh Patel
#Video length: one hour and twenty-eight minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sveBcfz0fHk
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Energy #Oil #FossilFuels #C20th #20thCentury @histodon @histodons
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
