Dimitri Nakassis
@dimitrinakassis.bsky.social
Greek archaeologist, Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder; Michigan (BA 1997) & Texas (PhD 2006) grad
Yes! For me his work consistently cuts through conceptual thickets and brings clarity to the conversation (even when I disagree)
January 15, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Yes! For me his work consistently cuts through conceptual thickets and brings clarity to the conversation (even when I disagree)
it's really confusing
December 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
it's really confusing
That's true! Although since 1982 it's progressively become more like other archaeological journals. I think that excavation reports were always edited, because they were not submitted in a final form. I think that in the old days the editorial staff did quite a lot of what we would call actual work
December 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
That's true! Although since 1982 it's progressively become more like other archaeological journals. I think that excavation reports were always edited, because they were not submitted in a final form. I think that in the old days the editorial staff did quite a lot of what we would call actual work
It was already clear in the early 1990s (thanks mainly to the work of Paul Halstead) that the system was nothing like that, but who needs evidence when "we can be sure"?
December 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM
It was already clear in the early 1990s (thanks mainly to the work of Paul Halstead) that the system was nothing like that, but who needs evidence when "we can be sure"?
One of the most insane passages about the Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean" world is VDH calling them commies (in "The Other Greeks", p. 30):
!["No city-state, no community of peers could have emerged out of that environment. The system was perhaps similar to the collectivized farm in modern authoritarian communist societies. Although some private land must have been outside of palatial control, we can be sure the majority of crops was always in the hands of Mycenean [sic] overlords. Wealth was not widely distributed. Food production was tightly controlled. Social life was highly regimented. These conditions of complexity made the entire system both resistant to needed reform and extremely vulnerable to outside challenge."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qdk77335qsalp35m4cc7musv/bafkreihqe4a6xzl2vgnpliouqx6t333g6bpebdiv45ggoecbf4hpbsgu3u@jpeg)
December 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
One of the most insane passages about the Late Bronze Age "Mycenaean" world is VDH calling them commies (in "The Other Greeks", p. 30):
I look forward to him cheering Michigan penalties like he's just won the Superbowl
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I look forward to him cheering Michigan penalties like he's just won the Superbowl
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization
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November 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization