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Dimitri Nakassis

@dimitrinakassis.bsky.social
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Greek archaeologist, Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder; Michigan (BA 1997) & Texas (PhD 2006) grad

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 6h
TAPA Vol. 156, No. 2 (2026) muse.jhu.edu/issue/57717 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @scsclassics.bsky.social Languages and Classics: Past, Present, Future @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
2026 fellows of the MacArthur foundation, including one Boulderite(!!):
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MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"A rich group of 15 plundered marble, bronze and pottery antiquities... that were confiscated in the US has been handed over to Greek officials in New York, the Culture Ministry said Monday" including this awesome Archaic helmet from Afrati, Crete: www.ekathimerini.com/news/1315885...
An Archaic decorated helmet of bronze
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sarah Morris has written a comprehensive review of the Pylos exhibits at Kalamata, Malibu, and Athens, and the accompanying exhibition catalogue:
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Mycenaeans in Messenia: Princes of Pylos, from Kalamata to Los Angeles and Athens | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 130, No 4
New discoveries from Mycenaean Pylos in southwest Greece were the focus of an exhibition inaugurated in early 2025 at the Archaeological Museum of Messenia (Kalamata). This exhibition traveled to the ...
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"One mistake university-based academics - including me - often make is we try to say things that are new, and then move on to the next thing. If you want to publish, you've got to advance the field. But in public-facing communications, simple, basic repetition is very important." Do they not teach?
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
My department is organizing a panel discussion of Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" with colleagues in Classics and Cinema Studies:
poster for "From Homer to Hollywood: Nolan's Interpretation of The Odyssey for the Modern Screen" QR code links to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSOKeiU4V_X7QkKdlxjh11bIdeJNc58W-nnZEowEQlwe0PGw/viewform?pli=1&authuser=0
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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hybrid #EpiDoc workshop today: Encoding the Bronze Age: Digital Approaches to Cypro-Aegean Epigraphy ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Encoding the Bronze Age: Digital Approaches to Cypro-Aegean Epigraphy
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I truly hope the courthouse is just called Zeus’ law.
Water tower as I drive through Xenia Ohio 
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Peter Davis @peterjdavis.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/l... Fascinating interview on the making of Nolan’s Odyssey.
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A Conversation with Nilo Otero, First Assistant Director on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
Podcast Episode · Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas · 26 August · 1hr 9min
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Good Lord I'm old
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‘I had to learn how to be a feminist’: Greg Dulli on surviving grunge, shunning misogyny, and Afghan Whigs’ glorious return
With a soulful sound and soul-baring lyrics, the Afghan Whigs rode the post-Nirvana boom to the big leagues. Their frontman explains his exploration of the male ego – and how Usher got the band back t...
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Paul Clarke @paulclarke.com · 14/08/2026
As I'm waiting for a big video to export, I shall tell the story of how I nearly died in a Greek trireme.
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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Not necessarily a Nolan dialog defender but not too bothered by "our age of bronze is collapsing." It's not hard for me to imagine getting into some sort of hijinks and then solemnly telling my wife that "our age of digital is collapsing."
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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
"If Odysseus’ voluntary exile and final sailing into the setting sun is the actual ending of his tale, Nolan’s movie can be read as an apologetics for the violence that the U.S. and its allies have meted out upon the world since 9/11." blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...
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Joel Christensen · Sunset of the West
With its emphasis on craft and a PR campaign tailored to the genius of its director, Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey” wants to save cinema from the fangs of AI. But for all its visual magnificence, the f...
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
An extensive set of geoglyphs discovered in southwestern Brazil suggests the civilization that lived there nearly 2,000 years ago may have had millions of people. 🧪🏺
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Lasers reveal hundreds of geoglyphs made by a mysterious civilization in the Amazon rainforest thousands of years ago
A new lidar survey of dense Amazonian rainforest has revealed hundreds of earthworks made by a mysterious civilization two millennia ago.
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Over 20,000 precolonial earthworks in the Southwest Amazonia - Nature
Using canopy-penetrating LiDAR data, the northern part of southwestern Amazonia appears to contain as many earthworks as previously estimated for the whole of Amazonia.
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Holocene ocean-atmosphere coupling and Mediterranean sensitivity to Atlantic circulation: Lessons from the Late Bronze Age collapse
Holocene Atlantic variability shaped Mediterranean drought risk through multiscale ocean-atmosphere coupling.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I was interviewed for this story (apologies for my contribution, such as it is, to the discourse): www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
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The Online Backlash to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Misses the Point of the Epic Poem
Classics scholars and archaeologists respond to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and the internet that arrived before the film even hit theaters.
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
An interview with the only Greek actor in Nolan's Odyssey (h/t Alicia Stallings): www.news247.gr/magazine/cul...
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Γιάννη Κοκιασμένε, πώς είναι να είσαι ο μόνος που μιλά ελληνικά στην “Οδύσσεια” του Νόλαν;
Ο πρωταγωνιστής της Στρέλλας είναι ο μόνος έλληνας στο καστ της νολανικής “Οδύσσειας” και μιλά στο NEWS24/7 για τις εντυπώσεις του από τον οσκαρικό σκηνοθέτη, κι από την ίδια την ταινία.
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Looks pretty cool, this "The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies": doi.org/10.1093/9780...
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies
Abstract. The Oxford Handbook of Digital Classical Studies approaches classical studies, archaeology, and philology as a unified field, and presents state-
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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My favorite take on the interminable Helen of Troy casting controversy. (Those who know about ancient Greek theater will get this.)
The casting in The Odyssey is really bad.

The ancient Greeks would never have cast a woman as Helen of Troy.
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The first review of the Palace of Nestor IV has been published in Classical Review: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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BIG BOOKS ON LINEAR B | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
BIG BOOKS ON LINEAR B
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I laughed while reading this sentence from AC Hogarth's anti-new archaeology article from 1972 ("Common sense in archaeology", Antiquity): "most of all is caution needed when adopting techniques from America"
text from an article by AC Hogarth, "Common sense in archaeology" Antiquity XLVI 1972: "most of all is caution needed when adopting techniques from America"
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
www.ertecho.gr/radio/trito/...
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Έλενα Κουντούρη, Νικολέτα Παράσχη, Μαρία Πιτούλη | Τετάρτη 06 Μαΐου 2026 - ERT εcho
Κάθε Δευτέρα και Τετάρτη στις 18:00 ο Γιώργος Γιανναράκος συζητάει με τους καλεσμένους του για θέματα τέχνης και πολιτισμού που αναδεικνύει η επικαιρότητα, στην εκπομπή «Άλλος Πλανήτης, άλλη Αλεπού, ά...
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Rachel Mairs @rachelmairs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Available free to download for the next two weeks: www.cambridge.org/core/element...  doi.org/10.1017/9781...
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Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia
Cambridge Core - Classical Archaeology - Language and Script in Achaemenid and Hellenistic Central Asia
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Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
This week many of our colleagues are sharing memories of Dr. Lynne Goldstein, who passed away Saturday, April 18. She was a leader in community engaged archaeology and fierce advocate and ally to students and women.
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Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social · 23/04/2026
Or speaks another language.
A two-image meme: the first image shows a parking space where there appears to remain one free spot, with the text “a gap in the literature”. The second image shows that a red car is actually occupying the spot that seemed free, with the text “non-English paper that no one reads”.
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The south gate of Gla lookin' so pretty
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Αποκαταστάθηκαν η Νότια Πύλη της μυκηναϊκής ακρόπολης του Γλα και μέρος του κυκλώπειου τείχους της | LiFO
Σύμφωνα με την υπουργό Πολτισμού Λίνα Μενδώνη, πρόκειται για «ένα μνημείο εφάμιλλο των μεγάλων μυκηναϊκών κέντρων της Πελοποννήσου»
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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Delighted to be part of this new special issue of the Cambridge Archaeological Journal on “Kinship Trouble” (link to full Table of Contents in next post) with perspectives from archaeology, archaeogenetics, and social anthropology. Critical as data from archaeogenetics becomes pervasive.
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Commentary: Making Kin Beyond Kinship | Cambridge Archaeological Journal | Cambridge Core
Commentary: Making Kin Beyond Kinship - Volume 36 Issue 2
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I'm gonna ride my llama from Peru to Texarkana
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Bill Radjewski @collegefootballdata.com · 07/04/2026
Updated historical Elo chart for the newly crowned men's basketball National Champion, Michigan. Greatest Michigan team of all time? They have a strong argument.
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Brian Actors Guild @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 06/04/2026
Public comment is closing tomorrow, so click the link and let your voice be heard. This is one of the most significant sites in North America
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The Secretary of the Interior proposes to revoke the withdrawal of up to approximately 336,425 acres of public lands within ca. 10 miles surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park; you can voice your opposition to this proposal here: eplanning.blm.gov/Project-Home...
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Project Home Page
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Bye bye, archaeology funding. 🧪🏺😢
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Oxford Journal of Archaeology Vol. 45, No. 2 (2026) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680092... @unioxarchaeology.bsky.social
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology: Vol 45, No 2
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth’s resources in order to gain possession of one of the ghastliest of all the piles of pebbles rattling around in space. Let's move on.”
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Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon
Henri Lefebvre wasn’t a fan of previous missions to the moon, describing it as “the sacrifice of a considerable part of the earth’s resources in order to gain possession of one of…
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The interlibrary loan librarians at my university are amazing; I gave them what I knew about an article, put a ? in the fields I couldn't fill in, and within the day I had a PDF of the article (from Jahrbuch der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften)!
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
chicagomaroon.com
Alivisatos to Be Replaced by A.I. Chatbot
During their quarterly board meeting, University trustees voted to further integrate AI into University administration by replacing President Paul Alivisatos.
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"all writers use AI" nope, get the entire fuck out of here with that
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Open access from the École française d’Athènes: "Pencil and Dust. Women who shaped archaeology in Greece and the Greek world" books.openedition.org/efa/20128
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Pencil and Dust. Women who shaped archaeology in Greece and the Greek world
The history of archaeology – particularly Classical archaeology – has long been written as a men’s story, obscuring the crucial role played by women. Focusing on Greece and the wider Greek world, Penc...
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Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"Arizona is like AI. They gather data. It modifies their gameplan. And then they become deadly." - Jim Jackson #MarchMadness
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I visited Ann Arbor over the summer; my father always maintained that I went to Michigan because of the basketball team (the Fab Five)...
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Seth Bernard @profbernard.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Bluesky friends, I am happy to advertise a conference on ancient and medieval slave trading in the Mediterranean, co-organized by myself and Elizabeth Fentress, to be held in Toronto next month (April 15-17, 2026). Contact me via email (rather than here) or the email on the poster for more info!
Bronze figurine of an enslaved person from Roman Britain on a conference poster advertising a conference next month in Toronto
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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026
OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚
photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(
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Patrick Barron 🐻〽️ @bluebarronphoto.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Excited to announce that after years of saying "I will get around to it"... I HAVE FINALLY BUILT UP MY PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE. It is mostly nature and national park themed. I've uploaded thousands of photos. There is a gallery for EVERY U.S. National Park🥲 bluebarronphoto.com
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Photographing America's National Parks
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
"Interestingly, glume wheats are absent from the site, with the notable exception of a concentration of emmer wheat found in an open area, which has been interpreted as part of the site’s ritual activities." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sacred and mundane: the role of plants in Minoan Mochlos rituals and daily life
The site of Mochlos, located in eastern Crete, offers a unique opportunity to investigate the subsistence practices, specialized agricultural activiti…
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jackiemurr.bsky.social @jackiemurr.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Of course my first post on here will be shameless self-promotion. I have two books coming out imminently. Cambridge is offering 20% off until the end of April with this discount code TCCCR2026 www.cambridge.org/9781009295130
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Henry Miller, Colossus of Maroussi (1941): "as long as human beings can sit and watch with hands folded while their fellow men are tortured and butchered so long will civilization be a hollow mockery, a wordy phantom suspended like a mirage above a swelling sea of murdered carcasses."
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Dimitri Nakassis @dimitrinakassis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Millet in Bronze Age Thasos! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Earliest millet cultivation reflects steppe connections, dietary flexibility, and resilience in Bronze Age northern Greece
This paper explores early broomcorn millet (hereafter millet) cultivation in Greece during the Bronze Age. The primary archaeobotanical data for this study derive from the site of Skala Sotiros on the...
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