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🔴 📖 **Beyond the River, Under the Eye of Rome**

“_Hart delves into the cultural and political impacts of Rome's interactions with Transdanubian peoples, emphasizing the Sarmatians of the Hungarian Plain, whose long encounter with the Roman Empire, he argues, created a problematic template for later dealings with Goths and Huns based on misapplied ethnographic and ecological tropes._”

🔗 https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11453670.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Read #Nonfiction #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #Romans #Academia #UniversityPress @bookstodon @histodon @histodons

🔴 **Qaryat al-Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl**

“_Despite his name being recorded in various texts and inscriptions on numerous objects that confirm his role as the city's patron god, scant information exists regarding his attributes or sphere of influence. Nonetheless, clues on some of his characteristics can be gleaned from coins bearing his likeness._”

de Lara, J. (2024). Qaryat al-Fāw/Qaryatum dhāt Kāhilim: On the identity of the god Kahl. Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, 35, 136–154. https://doi.org/10.1111/aae.12249.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Arabia #Mythology #Academia #Academic @archaeodons

🔴 **The Persistence of Tychonism**

“_In conclusion I will suggest that the historical longevity of
Tychonism has been considerably underestimated and also that Tychonists were not generally restrained from public endorsement of heliocentrism by religious pressure. On the contrary, I suggest that the continued acceptance of Tychonism was conditioned by its congruence with scientists’ religious beliefs._”

Barker, P. (2025) ‘The Persistence of Tychonism’, in Philosophical Readings. Zenodo, pp. 11–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15035063.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #HistSci #EarlyModern #Science #Religion #Academia #Academic @science @religion

🔴 **The human-driven ecological success of olive trees over the last 3700 years in the Central Mediterranean**

_“We hypothesize that cultural exchanges between Sicily and the Aegean in the Early-Middle Bronze Age have promoted the use of wild olive trees in the Messina area. At that time, olive trees could have been used for various purposes, including fruit production, but also wood and forage for animals. The development of olive groves followed a gradual, multi-stage process in the Central Mediterranean, with large-scale cultivation appearing only in modern times.”_

Palli, J. et al. (2025) 'The human-driven ecological success of olive trees over the last 3700 years in the Central Mediterranean,' Quaternary Science Reviews, 356, p. 109313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109313.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Ecology #History #Olive #Trees #Mediterranean #Academia #Academics

🔴 🌍 **Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population**

_“We find large discrepancies between the examined datasets, and, without exception, significant negative biases of −53%, −65%, −67%, −68%, and −84% for WorldPop, GWP, GRUMP, LandScan, and GHS-POP, respectively. This implies that rural population is, even in the most accurate dataset, underestimated by half compared to reported figures.”_

Láng-Ritter, J., Keskinen, M. & Tenkanen, H. Global gridded population datasets systematically underrepresent rural population. Nat Commun 16, 2170 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56906-7.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Geography #Science #Data #Population #Environment #Academia #Academics @geography @science

🔴 **A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans**

_“Using cobraa, we present evidence for an extended period of structure in the history of all modern humans, in which two ancestral populations that diverged ~1.5 million years ago came together in an admixture event ~300 thousand years ago, in a ratio of ~80:20%.”_

Cousins, T., Scally, A. & Durbin, R. A structured coalescent model reveals deep ancestral structure shared by all modern humans. Nat Genet (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02117-1.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genome #Academia #Academics @science

🔴 **Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii**

_“These narratives can be seen to form two sides to the same coin, as Pompeii’s prosperity was created in large part thanks to slave labour. The connection is supported by constructing a probabilistic model, which suggests some 6 million sesterces (HS) flowed every year to Pompeii’s masters through their exploitation of slaves. Slave owning probably formed the largest single income source for the urban economy.”_

Seth Bernard, Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii, Past & Present, 2025;, gtaf006, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf006

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Slavery #Roman #Pompeii #Academia #Academic @histodon @histodons

🔴 📖 **Antiquity - Including the “East” As “Western Identity”**

_“In this book, the reader will access debates on intercultural experiences from the perspective of Phoenician colonists in Spain; the formation of a particular Greek identity built by Greek colonists in Sicily; the dramatic social and cultural transformations in the southern Levant following the regional transition to the Bronze Age; the integration of pre-Islamic Somalia in a trade network connected to the Mediterranean, from the Bronze to Iron ages; the multicultural influences inspiring the Book of Genesis; the cultural identity of early Christians as the New Testament is developed under the influence of Near Eastern traditions; and the complex multi-cultural and multi-ethnic dialogue behind the process of formation of Koine Greek during Byzantine times.”

Antiquity - including the “East” as “Western identity” [Working title] (2023) IntechOpen eBooks. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.104678.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Academic #Ebook #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Linguistics #Antiquity #Culture #Identity @histodon @histodons @archaeodons @linguistics @bookstodon

🔴 **How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons**

_“Using existing estimates for manuscript production and loss we may infer, under the assumption that the estimates are valid, that at least 110000 manuscripts were copied by female scribes, of which around 8000 should still exist.”_

Ommundsen, Å., Conti, A.K., Haaland, Ø.A. et al. How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 346 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04666-6.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Linguistics #Religion #EarlyModern #Medieval #Manuscripts #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @linguistics

🔴 📖 **Christian Palestinian Aramaic between Greek and Arabic**

“The corpus consists mostly of translations from Greek, highlighting significant lexical borrowings and idiosyncratic syntax, such as periphrastic verb constructions. The article traces evidence of Arabic substrate influence in pre-Islamic times, including phonological shifts and loanwords, reflecting interactions between Arabic- and Aramaic-speaking Christians.”_

Gzella, H. (2025) 'Christian Palestinian Aramaic between Greek and Arabic,' in Open Book Publishers, pp. 747–770. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0463.27.

#History #Aramaic #Greek #Arabic #Languages #OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Nonfiction #Academia #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 📖 **Aramaic: Lingua Franca, Koine, or Both?**

_”The study investigates the historical roles of Aramaic as both a lingua franca and a koine, examining its development and usage across various periods. It identifies three main contexts: as the administrative and diplomatic language of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, as the religious and scholarly language of Jewish communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and as the liturgical and literary language of Syriac Christianity.”

Healey, J. (2025) 'Aramaic: lingua franca, koine, or both?,' in Open Book Publishers, pp. 771–796. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0463.28.

#History #Aramaic #Language #OpenAccess #OA #Nonfiction #Academia #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 **Analyzing wealth distribution effects of artificial intelligence: A dynamic stochastic general equilibrium approach**

_"Our findings highlight a temporal dichotomy in AI's effects on wealth inequality: in the short term, AI exacerbates disparities in wealth distribution, while the long-term outcomes depend on the extent of AI's influence across different technological domains. The nuanced nature of AI-driven technological progress leads to distinct consequences for the rate of return on capital—showing short-term increases across all forms of technological progress, but with varying long-term effects."_

Liu, F. and Liang, C. (2025) 'Analyzing Wealth Distribution Effects of Artificial Intelligence: A Dynamic Stochastic general Equilibrium approach,' Heliyon, 11(2), p. e41943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e41943.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Economics #Finance #Academia #Academics @ai @economics

🔴 **Late Wittgenstein’s money**

_“In particular, I first consider the inflation hypothesis as a derivative of the commodity theory of money and therefore inherently linked to a purely quantitative regime of monetary management. I then argue that, based on the hinge proposition that money is a creature of law, money’s value might instead be grasped and engaged on the basis of its political and qualitative dimensions.”_

Steininger, L.E. (2025) ‘Late Wittgenstein’s money’, Finance and Society, pp. 1–8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/fas.2024.27.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Finance #Society #Monetarism #Wittgenstein #Philosophy #Money #Academia #Academics @finance @philosophy

🔴 **Parallel scaling of elite wealth in ancient Roman and modern cities with implications for understanding urban inequality**

_"These patterns suggest the presence of an ancient, enduring mechanism underlying urban inequality. Supported by an agent-based network simulation and informed by the settlement scaling theory, we propose that the observed patterns arise from common preferential attachment in social networks—a simple, yet powerful, driver of unequal access to interaction potential."_

Carleton, W.C., Elton, H., Miranda, W. et al. Parallel scaling of elite wealth in ancient Roman and modern cities with implications for understanding urban inequality. Nat Cities (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44284-025-00213-1.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Roman #Cities #Academia #Academics @archaeodons

🔴 **Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire**

_“We provide new compelling evidence on the origins of the Hun-period population, its considerable diversity and its ties to the steppe and the Xiongnu elites.”_

G.A. Gnecchi-Ruscone, Z. Rácz, S. Liccardo, J. Lee, Y. Huang, L. Traverso, R. Radzevičiūtė, Z. Hajnal, A. Szécsényi-Nagy, B. Gyuris, O. Mateovics-László, Z. Bernert, T. Szeniczey, T. Hajdu, B. Mészáros, M. Bálint, B.G. Mende, B. Miller, Z. Samashev, A. Childebayeva, L. Djansugurova, P. Geary, H. Ringbauer, T. Vida, C. Jeong, W. Pohl, J. Krause, & Z. Hofmanová, Ancient genomes reveal trans-Eurasian connections between the European Huns and the Xiongnu Empire, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (9) e2418485122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2418485122 (2025).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Anthropology #Science #Biology #Ancient #Genomes #DNA #Eurasia #Huns #Xiongnu #MiddleAges #Academia #Academics @science @biology @anthropology

🔴 **Domination vs. Persuasion: The Role of Libido Dominandi in Adam Smith’s Thought**

_“We love to dominate not because we seek approval but because, through ordering, we do not need to persuade others to foster our ends. We are free from the troublesome endeavor of persuading them.”_

Santori, P. (2025) ‘Domination vs. Persuasion: The Role of Libido Dominandi in Adam Smith’s Thought’, The Review of Politics, pp. 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S003467052400069X.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AdamSmith #Politics #Domination #Persuasion #Academia #Academic

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🔴 ⛳ **Countries across the world use more land for golf courses than wind or solar energy**

_“Our study shows that in countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom, far more land is allocated to golf courses than to renewable energy facilities. Areas equivalent to those currently used for golf could support the installation of up to 842 GW of solar and 659 GW of wind capacity in the top ten countries with the most golf courses.”_

Jann Michael Weinand et al 2025 Environ. Res. Commun. in press https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/adb7bd.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Golf #Environment #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #Energy #Climate #ClimateChange #Academia #Academics @climatechange

🔴 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 **John Owen, Puritan Politics, and the Fall of the Cromwellian Protectorate**

_“Owen supported whatever political form could best preserve the long-term safety of the English commonwealth and godly rule against the Stuarts. Yet Owen’s legacy became contested among the godly after the Restoration, as the agent of the protectorate’s fall and the failure of puritan politics.”_

Quibell, A. (2025) ‘John Owen, Puritan Politics, and the Fall of the Cromwellian Protectorate’, The Historical Journal, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X24000803.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons

🔴 📖 **The Legibility of Serif and Sans Serif Typefaces**

_“It describes the origins of serif and sans serif styles in ancient inscriptions, their adoption in modern printing techniques, and their legibility in different situations and in different populations of readers.”_

Richardson, J.T.E. (2022) The legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces, Springer briefs in education. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90984-0.

#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Reading #Text #Serif #SansSerif #Typeface #Topography #Design #Nonfiction #EBook #PDF #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 🇬🇱 **Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection**

_“...we find twice as many high-impact genome-wide associations to metabolic traits in Greenland compared with Europe. We infer that the high-impact variants arose after the population split from Native Americans and thus are Arctic-specific, and show that some of them are common due to not only genetic drift but also selection.”_

Stæger, F.F., Andersen, M.K., Li, Z. et al. Genetic architecture in Greenland is shaped by demography, structure and selection. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08516-4.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Science #Genetics #Biology #Greenland #Academia #Academic @science