Recent publications

"Egypt," in A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World. Ed. F. de Angelis. Blackwell, 2020.

Review of Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome, Princeton University Press, 2017, in the Journal of Historical Geography 63 (January 2019):110-11.

The Open Sea. The Economic Life in the Ancient Mediterranean from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome. Princeton University Press.

"Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization," P. Turchin et al., PNAS December 2017.

"Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses," TE Curries, A. Bogaard, R. Cesaretti, NR Edward, P. Francois, PB Holden, D. Hoyer, A. Korotayev, J. Manning, JC Moreno Garcia, OK Oyebamji, C Petrie, P. Turchin, H. Whitehouse, A. Williams. Cliodynamics 6/1 (2015):24-56.

​"Revolts under the Ptolemies. A Paleoclimatological Perspective," in Revolt and Resistance in the Ancient Classical World and the Near East. In the Crucible of Empire. Ed. John J. Collins and J.G. Manning. Leiden. Pp. 154-71.

"Empirical Regularities Across Time, Space, and Culture: A Critical Review of Comparative Methods in Ancient Historical Research," With Dan Hoyer, Lead. Historia 67/2 (2018) 

"A Microscope for Global History: Seshat Global History Databank, a Methodological Overview." Digital Humanities Quarterly 10/4 (2016).