A5085144031- Computational and Text Analysis Methods
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Topic Modeling
- Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Religion and Society Interactions
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Advanced Graph Neural Networks
- Historical and Architectural Studies
- Race, History, and American Society
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Ancient Near East History
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Historical and Literary Studies
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Historical and Linguistic Studies
- Historical Economic and Social Studies
- Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
Kent State University
2015-2024
Loma Linda University
2024
International Bar Association
2023
American Society of Overseas Research
2023
British School at Athens
2023
Vanderbilt University
2023
Emory University
2023
New York University
2023
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2023
University of Oxford
2019-2022
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise moralizing religions in world history have been focus intense debate. Progress has limited by availability quantitative data to test competing theories, divergent ideas regarding both predictor outcomes variables, differences opinion over methodology. To address all these problems, we utilize Seshat: Global History Databank, a large storehouse information designed theories concerning evolutionary drivers social complexity. In addition Big Gods...
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new research possibilities for social scientists, but their potential as "synthetic data" is still largely unknown. In this paper, we investigate how accurately the popular closed-source LLM ChatGPT can recover public opinion, prompting to adopt different "personas" and then provide feeling thermometer scores 11 sociopolitical groups. The average generated by correspond closely averages in our baseline survey, 2016–2020 American National Election Study....
How did the classical Greek city come into being? What role religion play in its formation? Athens, with ancient citadel and central religious cult, has traditionally been model for emergence of city-state. But this original controversial investigation, Francois de Polignac suggests that Athenian was probably exception, not rule, development polis Greece. Combining archaeological textual evidence, argues eighth-century settlements would become city-states Greece were defined as much by...
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise moralizing religions in world history have been focus intense debate. Progress has limited by availability quantitative data to test competing theories, divergent ideas regarding both predictor outcomes variables, differences opinion over methodology. To address all these problems, we utilize Seshat: Global History Databank, a large storehouse information designed theories concerning evolutionary drivers social complexity history. In addition...
Research Article| April 01 2004 Paul’s Masculinity Jennifer Larson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Biblical Literature (2004) 123 (1): 85–97. https://doi.org/10.2307/3268551 Cite Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Citation Larson; Masculinity. 1 January 2004; doi: Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Dropdown Menu input auto suggest filter your All...
This article introduces the Seshat: Global History Databank, its potential, and methodology. Seshat is a databank containing vast amounts of quantitative data buttressed by qualitative nuance for large sample historical archaeological polities. The global in scope covers period from Neolithic Revolution to Industrial Revolution. allows scholars capture dynamic processes test theories about co-evolution (or not) social scale complexity, agriculture, warfare, religion, any number such Big...
In this issue, Slingerland et al. criticize the quality of data from Seshat: Global History Databank utilized in our Nature paper entitled “Complex Societies Precede Moralizing Gods throughout World History”. Their critique centres around roles played by research assistants and experts procuring curating data, periodization structure, so-called ‘data pasting’ filling’. We show that these criticisms are based on misunderstandings or misrepresentations methods used Seshat researchers. Overall,...
Seshat: Global History Databank, established in 2011, was initiated by an ever-growing team of social scientists and humanities scholars to test theories about the evolution complex societies (Francois et al. 2016; Turchin 2015). Seshat reflects both what is known global history (within certain practical constraints, discussed below) also unknown, or poorly known. a continuously growing dataset incorporating evolving interpretations, highlighting persisting controversies, contextualizing...