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dimitrinakassis.bsky.social
Greek archaeologist, Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder; Michigan (BA 1997) & Texas (PhD 2006) grad
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This podcast episode is very much worth listening to: byzantiumandfriends.podbean.com/e/130-a-conv...

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Coming soon! Andrew Shapland on "the emergence of Aegean Prehistory as a discipline, starting with the first recorded encounters with prehistoric monuments and artefacts and ending with the decipherment of Linear B in 1952": www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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If you're in the Boulder, Colorado, area, I'll be giving a book talk this coming Wednesday (Feb 26, 5pm) at the University of Colorado Boulder. It's free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!

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In the Late Bronze Age Mediterranean, distinctive stirrup jars were used to transport oil and likely wine #NationalDrinkWineDay 🍷 Their presence at the Greek town of Pefkakia suggests it was a major harbour, making it the northern-most Mycenaean port. 🆓 https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.221

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My book now has a publisher website! It'll be a while before it's all prettied up and published, but I'm so excited (and, yes, the Roman treasury gets plundered in this one, so it's not really a break from current events).

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I'm honored to announce that The Cutting-Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500-1800 has been award this year's Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award. Many thanks to my editor Debbie Gershenowitz who took a chance on this one. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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News about what's happening archaeologically in Chania, including a new clay label with Linear B inscription: hania.news/2025/01/31/6...

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I came across "The Statesman’s Yearbook" 2025 and it reads like something written in 1925:

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teaching the Early Bronze Age on the Greek mainland tomorrow so I get to show them this:

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ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

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Julie Hruby and I published an article about the Linear B tablets from Pylos and whether clay was recycled for their manufacture, based on Julie's systematic study of the clay fabrics: www.academia.edu/127170080/Re...

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I'm putting conference discount codes to work this afternoon (yes, I'm stress-buying footnotes) and am very excited to see this popping up in Princeton University Press' previews.

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Two new papers now available open access (both in the same edited volume!) 1: "Signs of the times?", in which Ester Salgarella & I explore & critique the use of palaeographic (handwriting) variation to date Linear A & B texts works.hcommons.org/records/sd1t... #AncientBluesky🏺

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Chautauqua Park this morning in Boulder, CO

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Me, editing my own work

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Feb 13: SAR annual Mellon Lecture, co-presented with SITE Santa Fe. @jasondeleon.bsky.social shares the human side of migration through his powerful blend of #archaeology, #anthropology, and lived experiences. sarsf.info/deleon Support provided by the Mellon Foundation.

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Back from New York and still thinking about this exhibit at the Met

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This is super, from Bartek Lis and Anthi Batziou: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Excited about this, by Hallie Franks: www.bloomsbury.com/us/ancient-s...

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Egyptian art is so damn cool www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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I kind of like "Penelopese" (I mean, obviously Penelope > Pelops) but somehow I doubt it's intentional...

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I'm excited about this, both the exhibit and the catalogue (which I have a small piece in). The exhibit is opening in Kalamata in February, Los Angeles in June, Athens in early 2026, and finally returns to Chora shop.getty.edu/products/the...

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New issue of Cambridge Archaeological Journal Vol. 34 , No. 1 (2024) www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @cambridgeuparchaeo.bsky.social

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Just dropped: major article on the outrageous "fragments scheme" whereby (evidence suggests) D. von Bothmer, curator @metmuseum1870.bsky.social conspired with antiquities traffickers like Giacomo Medici & Robert Hecht to get around export laws by BREAKING INTACT ANCIENT VASES INTO FRAGMENTS ... 1/3

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