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Dries Daems

@driesdaems.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Spatial Digital Humanities at VU Amsterdam ABM, Network Analysis, Pottery studies & Computational Archaeology

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The Long Now Foundation @longnow.org · 02/06/2026
Eight sophisticated civilizations across the Mediterranean collapsed within decades of 01177 BCE. What happened? Historians are still arguing about it. @driesdaems.bsky.social explains: longnow.org/ideas/reimag...
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Reimagining the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
From ancient empires to the industrialized nation-states of our globally-interconnected world, complexity theory offers a fresh perspective on the past and possible futures of human societies.
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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
1/4 New recommendation: Robert J. Bischoff & Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias (2026). Bridging Material Culture Networks and Social Networks in Archaeology. V2 peer-reviewed and recommended by PCI Archaeology doi.org/10.31235/osf... @ceciliapad.bsky.social
Figure 5 from the manuscript: Networks of interaction and material culture for two runs of the ArchMatNet model. Networks (a) are from a run of the model where the parameter uniqueTraits is set to false, meaning each band has identical starting traits. Networks (b) include networks where uniqueTraits are set to true, and each band unique starting traits. Nodes are colored by band and numbered by camp. Only the strongest 50% of links are shown. The color and size of the edges represent the strength (or weight) of the relationship between each node.
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PCI Archaeology @pciarchaeology.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
3/4 Recommended by @paulageorgiade.bsky.social based on reviews by Mark Golitko, @driesdaems.bsky.social, and one anonymous reviewer. All editorial work accessible here: doi.org/10.24072/pci...
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From Artifacts to Interaction: Testing Assumptions in Archaeolog...
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British Institute at Ankara @thebiaankara.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
🚨 NEWS 🏺 BIAA Reference Collections in Action: Supporting Research at Türkmen-Karahöyük 🗞️ Read more at biaa.ac.uk/biaa-referen...
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Paula Gheorghiade @paulageorgiade.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Grateful to Stanley Klassen & @driesdaems.bsky.social who helped us study the pottery in #Jordan over the last few years. This is a well deserved spotlight! Many thanks to all! www.nmc.utoronto.ca/news/nmc-spo... #UofT #NMC #archaeology #ceramics @helsinki.fi
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NMC Spotlight: Stanley Klassen
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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
New issue of American Journal of Archaeology Vol. 129, No. 4 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/aja/2025... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @petramcreamer.bsky.social @driesdaems.bsky.social @archaeological.org
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Dries Daems @driesdaems.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
New paper out!: doi.org/10.1515/opar.... Open access!
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Networks of Pots: The Usage of Ceramics in Network Analysis in Mediterranean Archaeology
Pottery studies constitute a core domain in archaeology. The establishment of typo-chronologies forms the backbone of most chronological inferences in Mediterranean archaeology in particular. Computat...
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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
PhD opportunity 🏺 🎓 @Aarhus_Uni: "Cradles of Agrodiversity in Northern Europe" Explore pre-Roman agriculture using soil science & bio-archaeology. Perfect for Geoscience/Archaeology grads. Start: May 2025 Apply by: Feb 1, 2025 Info: smk@geo.au.dk #PhDPosition #Archaeology #Research
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The cradles of agrodiversity in Northern Europe
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Dr Huw Groucutt @huwgroucutt.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
1) Postdoc job opportunities…join my TerraForm ERC project, at the University of Malta. One position for a geoarchaeologist and one in GIS/spatial analysis. The formal advert and application procedure will be out soon (and shared here), so I am releasing this as an early notice.
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Dries Daems @driesdaems.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Very happy to see our latest paper published in JAS: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Unravelling the threads of connectivity: A mutual information approach to tracing material networks in the late hellenistic and early roman mediterranean
The study of connectivity and interaction in the Mediterranean world is a rich and vibrant topic. While most direct attestations of past interaction h…
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Dries Daems @driesdaems.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
Very proud to see the introduction to our Special Issue in The Holocene published today. If you are interested in deep-time patterns of sustainability and resilience in socio-ecological systems, this is something to check out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Dries Daems @driesdaems.bsky.social · 08/01/2024
New year, new job! Very excited to announce that starting next month I will join VU Amsterdam as Assistant Professor in Spatial Digital Humanities. My role will be to foster interdisciplinary integration through spatial approaches. Looking forward to all the new collaborations!
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