Dimitri Nakassis
@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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The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The cover of my forthcoming book, out in February/March. #dogs #Roman-Britain #animalturm #archaeology
Or you could, you know, talk to your friends
What do you do after you’re done jumping the shark?
Whatever it is, Nature Careers is all in.
Whatever it is, Nature Careers is all in.
November 11, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Or you could, you know, talk to your friends
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Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
November 2, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto
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"There are only so many selfies, photos of my dog, and funny-shaped carpet stains I can share before I come off as a shallow, boring influencer. So, I decided to post an image in my dump of a book a roommate left behind—The Picture of Dorian Gray."
I Started Reading Performatively, and Turns Out Books Are Pretty Good
It all started when Instagram introduced the twenty-slide photo dumps. Trying to post the correct ratio of photos to memes to appear both off-the-g...
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November 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"There are only so many selfies, photos of my dog, and funny-shaped carpet stains I can share before I come off as a shallow, boring influencer. So, I decided to post an image in my dump of a book a roommate left behind—The Picture of Dorian Gray."
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Happy to see my book reviewed in @antiquity.ac.uk!
📕 #BookReview
What did prehistoric people think about their past? Can #archaeology reveal 'historical culture' in societies without written literature? @profbernard.bsky.social's 'Historical culture in Iron Age Italy' breaks new ground on these questions 1/2
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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What did prehistoric people think about their past? Can #archaeology reveal 'historical culture' in societies without written literature? @profbernard.bsky.social's 'Historical culture in Iron Age Italy' breaks new ground on these questions 1/2
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Happy to see my book reviewed in @antiquity.ac.uk!
The Greek newspaper @kathimerini.gr ran a story about our ongoing XRF study of the Linear B tablets from Pylos: www.kathimerini.gr/culture/5638...
Ακτίνες Χ σε Γραμμική Β΄
Ακτινογραφώντας τα αρχαία, πήλινα «μέμο» της Πύλου.
www.kathimerini.gr
October 10, 2025 at 5:21 AM
The Greek newspaper @kathimerini.gr ran a story about our ongoing XRF study of the Linear B tablets from Pylos: www.kathimerini.gr/culture/5638...
I'm compiling some statistics about the proportion of articles about Aegean prehistory in major American journals (it's about 15-20%) and every so often, you get an issue that's all Aegean all the time (ajaonline.org/toc/1183/):
September 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I'm compiling some statistics about the proportion of articles about Aegean prehistory in major American journals (it's about 15-20%) and every so often, you get an issue that's all Aegean all the time (ajaonline.org/toc/1183/):
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So often I went from Berlin to #GöbekliTepe in the past 20 years or so - but finally the Tepe is coming to Berlin! 😉
🏺 www.trtworld.com/article/a7e6...
🏺 www.trtworld.com/article/a7e6...
TRT World - Türkiye’s Gobeklitepe to be showcased in Germany with a special exhibition in 2026
The Berlin exhibition highlights the country's global promotion of Göbeklitepe, with a major project on Museum Island and similar events planned abroad, the ministry says.
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September 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
So often I went from Berlin to #GöbekliTepe in the past 20 years or so - but finally the Tepe is coming to Berlin! 😉
🏺 www.trtworld.com/article/a7e6...
🏺 www.trtworld.com/article/a7e6...
Ralphie! @iotasubscript.bsky.social
Ralphie VII’s first run was a success. Let’s play football.
September 21, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Ralphie! @iotasubscript.bsky.social
Habemus Ralphie (no I'm not going to try to Latinize Ralphie): cubuffs.com/news/2025/9/...
Introducing Ralphie VII - University of Colorado Athletics
The best tradition in sports is back! Ralphie VII will make her debut on Saturday before the game against Wyoming.
cubuffs.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Habemus Ralphie (no I'm not going to try to Latinize Ralphie): cubuffs.com/news/2025/9/...
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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📕 #BookReview
How has the rise of commercial ancestry testing affected ancient DNA studies? Can past lives become props in modern-day ethical and cultural debates? Explore all this and more in Matthew David Teasdale's review of 'The trouble with ancient DNA' by Anna Källén 1/2
How has the rise of commercial ancestry testing affected ancient DNA studies? Can past lives become props in modern-day ethical and cultural debates? Explore all this and more in Matthew David Teasdale's review of 'The trouble with ancient DNA' by Anna Källén 1/2
September 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
📕 #BookReview
How has the rise of commercial ancestry testing affected ancient DNA studies? Can past lives become props in modern-day ethical and cultural debates? Explore all this and more in Matthew David Teasdale's review of 'The trouble with ancient DNA' by Anna Källén 1/2
How has the rise of commercial ancestry testing affected ancient DNA studies? Can past lives become props in modern-day ethical and cultural debates? Explore all this and more in Matthew David Teasdale's review of 'The trouble with ancient DNA' by Anna Källén 1/2
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Magnitude : 5.1
Region: *Aegean Sea*
Time: 2025-09-08 21:27:57 UTC
Epicenter : 24.09°E 38.20°N
Depth: 10 km
*First posted at: 21:30 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025rqkg/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
Region: *Aegean Sea*
Time: 2025-09-08 21:27:57 UTC
Epicenter : 24.09°E 38.20°N
Depth: 10 km
*First posted at: 21:30 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025rqkg/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
September 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Magnitude : 5.1
Region: *Aegean Sea*
Time: 2025-09-08 21:27:57 UTC
Epicenter : 24.09°E 38.20°N
Depth: 10 km
*First posted at: 21:30 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025rqkg/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
Region: *Aegean Sea*
Time: 2025-09-08 21:27:57 UTC
Epicenter : 24.09°E 38.20°N
Depth: 10 km
*First posted at: 21:30 UTC*
https://geofon.gfz-potsdam.de/eqexplorer/events/gfz2025rqkg/general
##GEOFON ##GFZ ##earthquake ##magnitude
the 16th colloquium on Mycenaean studies (basically Aegean scripts) begins in two days in Madrid: www.uned.es/universidad/...
Mostrar noticia de la facultad
Noticias de la Facultad de Filología de la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - UNED
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September 1, 2025 at 10:49 PM
the 16th colloquium on Mycenaean studies (basically Aegean scripts) begins in two days in Madrid: www.uned.es/universidad/...
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Penelope Mountjoy obituary | Archaeology | The Guardian
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Penelope Mountjoy obituary
Archaeologist whose recording of ceramics provided insights into the Mycenaean civilisation of late bronze age Greece
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August 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Penelope Mountjoy obituary | Archaeology | The Guardian
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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‘Even if the coastline we know is young – its features only relatively stable for the last five or six thousand years – mental traces of earlier configurations survive.’
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Josephine Quinn · Born on the Beach: Ancient Coastlines
Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...
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August 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
‘Even if the coastline we know is young – its features only relatively stable for the last five or six thousand years – mental traces of earlier configurations survive.’
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
I'm excited to announce that the Palace of Nestor IV is officially out, and thanks to a grant from the Packard Humanities Institute, it is being made available from Lockwood Press for only $100 and is being distributed as an eBook for free! www.lockwoodpress.com/product-page...
The Palace of Nestor at Pylos in Western Messenia: Vol. IV: Inscribed Docs | Lockwood Press
Excavations at the Palace of Nestor in Western Messenia: The Inscribed Documents is being offered at a reduced price owing to a grant from the Packard Humanities Institute. Emmett L. Bennett Jr., José...
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August 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I'm excited to announce that the Palace of Nestor IV is officially out, and thanks to a grant from the Packard Humanities Institute, it is being made available from Lockwood Press for only $100 and is being distributed as an eBook for free! www.lockwoodpress.com/product-page...
The hero we need
August 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM
The hero we need
"...most faculty have given up on 'cop shit' in their classroom a long time ago. My goal is not to 'catch' my students cheating, but to create situations where cheating isn’t seen as a viable recipe for success in the class." mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/t...
Teaching Thursday: AI and Cheating
In the lead up to the new semester, there is a lot of buzz about dealing with AIs in the classroom and the predictable gaggle of well-meaning, but angst-ridden punditry about how ubiquitous access …
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August 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"...most faculty have given up on 'cop shit' in their classroom a long time ago. My goal is not to 'catch' my students cheating, but to create situations where cheating isn’t seen as a viable recipe for success in the class." mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2025/08/14/t...
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Humanities' teaching subsidize STEM at universities is actually a "everybody subsidizes professional schools' and the engineering college's teaching."
profession.mla.org/the-humaniti...
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August 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Humanities' teaching subsidize STEM at universities is actually a "everybody subsidizes professional schools' and the engineering college's teaching."
profession.mla.org/the-humaniti...
profession.mla.org/the-humaniti...
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Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out!
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
Hamilakis, Y. 2026. Archaeology as a hauntology of remains. In Shadow Archaeologies In the Shadow of Antiquity or For Other Modes of Archaeological Worldmaking, edited by A. Nativ and G. Lucas. London...
In this chapter, I propose a hauntological archaeology, not as a subdiscipline, a subfield, or a method but as an affect, as a way of allowing or rather enabling material remains to haunt us. This is ...
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August 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Archaeology defined as a hauntology of remains. A theoretical statement grounded on my work on ruins as well as my recent work on the remnants of contemporary migration. Part of a great volume! Grateful to the editors and to many colleagues who helped out!
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
www.academia.edu/143309448/Ha...
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Adobe Acrobat suggested that its AI assistant could offer me a summary of an academic article I was reading in Hebrew. I clicked. Here’s what it gave me. Thanks but no thanks.
August 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Adobe Acrobat suggested that its AI assistant could offer me a summary of an academic article I was reading in Hebrew. I clicked. Here’s what it gave me. Thanks but no thanks.
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Current international frameworks for heritage are products of nationalist logic— archaeology is absorbed by nations as part of their validation among their peers. In colonized countries, this perpetuates the violence of dispossession of colonial “conquest”. 1/
Who Are Museums Really For? And Can We Change Our Minds?
The film “Binnigula’sa’ (Ancient Zapotec People)” asks the questions: Who are the rightful custodians of artifacts, and what is the responsibility of museums to local communities?
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August 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Current international frameworks for heritage are products of nationalist logic— archaeology is absorbed by nations as part of their validation among their peers. In colonized countries, this perpetuates the violence of dispossession of colonial “conquest”. 1/
I'm doing this in ten days (free, online, registration required): www.getty.edu/calendar/art...
Art Break: What People Wrote in the Late Bronze Age | Getty Event
Join archaeologists as they reveal how seemingly mundane lists offer fascinating glimpses into daily life in the Bronze Age.
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August 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I'm doing this in ten days (free, online, registration required): www.getty.edu/calendar/art...