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Anatolia!

Posted on by Razib Khan

In case you haven’t seen, in October I posted three essays and one podcast on Anatolia’s history and genetics:

1. Ararat’s long shadow: Asia Minor’s major impact on humanity
2. Hittite Words, Byzantine Walls: what the West as we know it owes Anatolia’s empires
3. The Turkification of Anatolia: tales of Rome’s last conquerors

And the podcast, Anatolia over 10,000 years – From first farmers to the Turks.

Also, if you didn’t notice, I put all my podcasts (2-week delayed) on YouTube. Subscribe to the channel if you get your content that way.

Finally, if you wouldn’t mind rating my podcast on Apple (or wherever you subscribe) highly, I would appreciate that.

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6 thoughts on “Anatolia!”

  2. Have you considered unlocking your Substack posts after a delay — a couple of months perhaps, or even a year — like you do with your podcasts? It might not maximize your income, if that’s your primary concern, but it would increase your readership.

  3. i’m thinking about it. not too concerned about readership. tens of millions of ppl have read me over the last 20 years. this would be a marginal change i think?

    i do like the idea that paid subs get access to the whole archives and that’s their privilege

  4. The thing is, I really just hate paywalls, because they are drastically reducing the utility of the Internet as a repository of information. More and more, the links I’ve saved are going dark, and I can no longer use them to refresh my memory of ideas or events, or forward them to others. More and more, interesting new information is hidden. I see this as a terrible loss for everyone, compared to the broad openness of ten or fifteen years ago.

    In every case a subscription is requested, which I could easily afford for one site, but not for hundreds (many of which only have a single article I’m interested in). Newspapers and magazines do need to meet payrolls, but even then it seems grasping and petty that the New York Times or the Washington Post don’t free their articles after some period of time, once the news is no longer current. Bloggers in general have more freedom than commercial publications. Maybe some bloggers really need the money, and are afraid that making their work freely available after even a lengthy delay would cut into their income. But for those who are not in that position I think it’s a public spirited thing to do, and I’d like to encourage it as much as possible.

    Maybe some day we’ll have a functioning micropayment infrastructure, and we’ll be able to go back to making money on a page view basis, the way it worked when everything was paid for by advertising. But until then, paywalls that sunset seem like the simplest compromise between making money and preserving openness.

  6. If Indo-European languages originate in Caucasus side of steppe ancestry, would it make sense that Basque came from the Eastern-Hunter-Gatherer side of that ancestry? Historic tribal confederations have often been multilingual and multiethnic, so I don’t think a multilingual Bell Beaker Culture is totally improbable.

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