Dimitri Nakassis

My review of "Mothering and Archaeology" edited by @savarchaeoalliance.bsky.social and Suzanne Spencer-Wood is out in Historical Archaeology! rdcu.be/eZpdj #academicsky 🏺

Lots of archaeology proposals (viz, archaeological surveys) are basically this too

How tough is “tough enough” in archaeology? Sarah Simeonoff, Marie Matsuda, Gabrielle Perry, and Breeanna Charolla explore how fieldwork culture shapes experiences and inclusivity.

Learn more about their proposed avenues for reform in this AAP FirstView Article: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Somehow I never knew about the clapping (and I TAed for TKH and took two classes from him!). That's so bizarre

I was half-joking... on the one hand, it is really weird. On the other, my rule is: if it's weird that means it's prob interesting. West points out in his commentary that Kirke is on the eastern horizon, but I tried to argue way back when (2004) that far East and West can converge on each other

too weird IMO, better to forget about it

Generally I think Collinsworth is pretty good but he was terrible today

Sure Bayern won 5-1 over Hoffenheim, but at least they didn’t have their stepovers go wrong like Lennart Karl’s attempt.

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News - Preserving Bolivia, Egypt, and Greece - Archaeological Institute of America AIA News news from the AIA

Greek archaeologists: February 20, 2026 is the deadline for you to submit a letter supporting the renewal of the bilateral agreement protecting Greek cultural heritage: www.archaeological.org/preserving-b...

That line (this is how men behave) d disgusted me; I just hope I'm not anomalous

New article! "Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing" in Current Anthropology, by a giant collaborative group of coauthors fearlessly led by Jess Beck and including @bridgetalex.bsky.social @benmarwick.bsky.social @christinawarinner.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire . ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire .

"(This is how men behave.)”

OPEN ACCESS in @saa-aap.bsky.social: This team analyzed 22 years of data from the annual meeting of the SAA to examine how women's participation has changed over time.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Screenshot: Google books search of "mycenaean sword" yields result of book in preview mode

I just tested it and it seemed to be working as usual:

For sure. I was thinking of the Greek support of Cyrus and then the invasion of Agesilaus, but to be sure that's basically only a decade of irritating activity after the defeat of Athens

Given that Odysseus thought the most beautiful man in the world was Memnon the Ethiopian, casting a black woman as Helen may have been the only defensible choice.

I dunno, they were pretty annoying from ca. 500 to 334 BCE

Mark Carney invoked ancient Greek writer Thucydides at Davos – what people get wrong about his writing on power Thucydides did not say that the strong will always win out over the weak.

Thucydides did not say that the strong will always win out over the weak.

A rental car mostly driven into a ditch

Check out this blog post and the article; driving slowly around Examilia with Tim, Lita, David and @billcaraher.bsky.social is certainly preferable to this Examilian mini-tragedy: mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/01/20/w...

YouTube video by GODS OF FOOTBALL Narracion Reacción de Andrés Cantor de Telemundo y Claudio Borghi, Argentina Campeona del Mundo

take once a week or so for best results www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTp...

Peopling Podcast logo with additional text reading "Season 5: Call for Contributors"

Peopling the Past is planning Season 5 of our podcast! We are looking for folks who are interested in appearing as episode guests: the theme of Season 5 will be the relevance of the ancient world to our understanding of important but challenging contemporary issues
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In 2019 Dimitri Nakassis posted this lovely picture of Delphic rainbows up on Twitter (taken by Ross Nichol and shared by Archaeological Museum of Delphi).

On this day in 2019, the splendid @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social posted this photo of Delphic double rainbows 🌈 on Twitter (taken by Ross Nichol and shared by the Archaeological Museum of Delphi). And I think it’s the only thing I want to repost from Twitter anymore.

February 1 is the deadline to nominate books for the AIA's Felicia A. Holton Award. If you know any books published in the past three years that make bring the excitement of archaeology to a general audience, please nominate them here:
www.archaeological.org/grant/holton...

Yes! For me his work consistently cuts through conceptual thickets and brings clarity to the conversation (even when I disagree)

Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece Textiles accompany us throughout our lives, au fil du temps , from the cradle to the grave. Aspects of time, seasons and chronology play an important role when exploring textiles and clothes in antiqu...

A new and open-access book, "Time of Textiles in Ancient Greece" by Marie-Louise Bech Nosch: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Cover of "How to Hide an Empire" by Daniel Immerwahr

Vegetarian Greek food restaurant called Don't Meat Your Gyros

Super interesting article on the archaeology jobs wiki and trends in archaeology job ads

it's really confusing