Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🔴 **Ancient British coins found in Dutch field likely to be spoils of Roman conquest**
Daniel Boffey
_“The wide chronological range of the coins suggests they were not selected based on quality, gold content or weight but removed from circulation in a single event, consistent with being spoils from the early Roman conquest of Britain under the general Aulus Plautius (AD43-47).”_
#Ancient #History #Romans #Empire #Britain #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Netherlands #Europe @archaeodons
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Trump's Greenland 'Grab' - A British Problem
Mark Felton Productions
_“President Trump's announcement that Denmark must transfer sovereignty over Greenland to the US has caused a transatlantic diplomat spat which has just become more complicated when Denmark revealed a 1917 agreement made with Britain concerning Greenland's future.”_
#Video length: eight minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMDDLGkP1I0
#Trump #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Greenland #Denmark #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Europe #EU #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **The first robber baron and the emergence of the corporation**
🔗 https://malwarwickonbooks.com/first-robber-baron/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Vanderbilt #Biography #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🗺️ **The first regional maps and the first world map**
Miguel García Álvarez
_“It was created in Babylon around 500 BC as a copy of an original 200 years older, which has not survived to the present day. It is a clay tablet with drawings and inscriptions showing the Babylonian view of the world.”_
🔗 https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/first-regional-maps-and-the-first-world-map
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Map #Maps #Cartography @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Coin or Not to Coin: Why did the Greeks bother to create coinage? - Gilles Bransbourg**
#Video length: one hour and four minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IClozYcZP7o
#Lecture #History #Histodon #Histodons #Coins #Numismatics @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Roma Eterna? Roman rule explains regional well-being divides in Germany**
_“...we develop and test the argument that the Roman occupation produced an advantageous positive economic imprint (e.g., investments in economic infrastructure and a trade culture), which in turn imprinted a deep, persisting adaptive macro-psychological profile. Both the economic and macro-psychological imprints co-evolved and continue to contribute to inequalities in adaptive personality traits and related health and well-being outcomes across Germany today.”_
Obschonka, M. et al. (2025) 'Roma eterna? Roman rule explains regional Well-Being divides in Germany,' Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, p. 100214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2025.100214.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Culture #Health #History #Histodon #Histodons #Geography #Roman #Empire #Imperium #Germany #Europe #Psychology #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @psychology
🔴 📖 🎧 **The Partition of Europe: A Textbook of European History 1715-1815**
by Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)
#LibriVox #PublicDomain #Audiobook #History #Europe #Histodon #Histodons #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 **Denmark’s new royal coat of arms marks the end of a 400-year-long Swedish-Danish conflict**
Martin Sunnqvist
_“In reality, the king’s decision to change the coat of arms was about bringing the different parts of the Danish kingdom together in a way that is more representative of modern Denmark. This is not a new practice. What is, however, surprising is his choice to remove a part of the royal coat of arms that has been there since 1397 and has been a source of conflict with Denmark’s neighbour Sweden.”_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Denmark #Sweden #Europe @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Could you pass an English exam from 1913?**
Janine Machin
_"The exam comprised a series of papers on phonetics, grammar, and translation, which took 12 hours to complete."_
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cedn9pqg9jlo.
#History #Education #Learning #Examinations #Exams #English #Language
🔴 **The Jagged, Monstrous Function That Broke Calculus**
Solomon Adams
_“Weierstrass discovered a function that, according to Ampère’s proof, should have been impossible: It was continuous everywhere yet differentiable nowhere.”_
🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-jagged-monstrous-function-that-broke-calculus-20250123/.
🔴 **Architectures of learning**
Dr Cristian Ispir
_“Our historical narratives often center on literate, language-based learning—philosophy, science, law, and literature. However, culture itself is a learning system, one that processes challenges, stores solutions, and disseminates best practices.”_
🔴 📚 **Before Control-P: The Printing Process**
Patrick Hastings
_“This post will explain how press operators used a printing press to produce multiple copies of identical text for wide distribution. Although this process may seem slow and cumbersome to contemporary readers, remember that printing replaced the hand-copying of manuscripts by scribes. It is impossible to overstate the degree to which printing technology revolutionized communication in Europe when it appeared in the 1450s.”_
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025/01/24/before-control-p-the-printing-process/.
#EarlyModern #BookHistory #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Printing @histodon @histodons @bookstodon @earlymodern
🔴 **North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period**
_"We infer a high degree of temporal heterogeneity in ancestry, with fluctuating genetic affinities to different present-day Eurasian groups. We also infer high heterogeneity in ancestry within geographically, culturally, and socially defined groups. Despite this, we find that ancestry components which are widespread in Eastern and Central Europe have been present in the Ukraine region since the Bronze Age."_
Lehti Saag et al., North Pontic crossroads: Mobility in Ukraine from the Bronze Age to the early modern period. Sci. Adv.11, eadr0695 (2025) .DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adr0695
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genomics #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ukraine #BronzeAge #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons
🔴 **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/.
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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