معرفی
Tero Alstola is a University Researcher at the Department of Languages, Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki. He specializes in digital humanities and the social history of Babylonia in the first millennium BCE, focusing on migrant and rural populations, network analysis of historical datasets, and language technological study of the Akkadian language.
- Fields of Interest: Assyriology, Digital Humanities, Social History, Ancient Near Eastern Empires, Language Technology
- Collaborations: Active in international projects like the Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEE) and Changes in Sacred Texts and Traditions (CSTT)
- Media: Engages in public outreach, including media contributions on topics like ancient beer recipes and Neo-Assyrian propaganda
Research Trends include quantitative analysis of cuneiform texts, semantic domain mapping, and interdisciplinary applications of computational methods to ancient Near Eastern studies. Recent work explores divine affiliations in Neo-Assyrian texts, digital lexical portals, and public archaeology.
Projects involve leadership roles in semantic domain analysis (2016-2020) and participation in ANEE/CSTT initiatives (2014-2025). His datasets on cuneiform corpora and lexical analysis tools are openly accessible via repositories like Zenodo.
