Dr. Walter Crist
@waltros.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Ancient Games. Syracuse Basketball. Cheese. Sneakers. Gay stuff. he/him
Hard to find decent turkey here in NL so I settled for pork loin braised with apples and rosé, transcendent garlic mashed potatoes (thank you, French butter), hot honey glazed brussels sprouts and cranberries with gin and kumquats 😁
November 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Hard to find decent turkey here in NL so I settled for pork loin braised with apples and rosé, transcendent garlic mashed potatoes (thank you, French butter), hot honey glazed brussels sprouts and cranberries with gin and kumquats 😁
Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score
September 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Post a movie you like with a terrible Rotten Tomatoes score
CALL FOR PAPERS! We are accepting papers for Computational Techniques for Games Heritage, a special issue of the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage! See below for more info or reach out if you have questions! dl.acm.org/pb-assets/st...
September 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
CALL FOR PAPERS! We are accepting papers for Computational Techniques for Games Heritage, a special issue of the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage! See below for more info or reach out if you have questions! dl.acm.org/pb-assets/st...
“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”
September 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
“Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?”
Oh you’re a gamer? Name the first game you played on PC.
July 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Oh you’re a gamer? Name the first game you played on PC.
Last week the COST Action @gametablenetwork.bsky.social held a training school for games documentation in Athens. We were granted special access to many of the monuments in Attika, including the Parthenon! Here we are showing an Ottoman mancala game on the Hephaestion. @costprogramme.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Last week the COST Action @gametablenetwork.bsky.social held a training school for games documentation in Athens. We were granted special access to many of the monuments in Attika, including the Parthenon! Here we are showing an Ottoman mancala game on the Hephaestion. @costprogramme.bsky.social
There are ancient Egyptian game boards (for mehen, specifically) in Andor Season 2 ep 10
May 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
There are ancient Egyptian game boards (for mehen, specifically) in Andor Season 2 ep 10
If you’re at #CAA this afternoon, come by the @gametablenetwork.bsky.social session for talks about games from all around the world!
May 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
If you’re at #CAA this afternoon, come by the @gametablenetwork.bsky.social session for talks about games from all around the world!
Shout out to all women game players on International Women’s Day! The earliest person in the world who can be identified as someone who played games was the woman buried at el-Mahasna, Egypt around 3800 BCE with this, the oldest surviving game set!
March 8, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Shout out to all women game players on International Women’s Day! The earliest person in the world who can be identified as someone who played games was the woman buried at el-Mahasna, Egypt around 3800 BCE with this, the oldest surviving game set!
Tomorrow! Listen to me talk about how to use simulated play to study ancient board games for the AIA Ottawa Society!
January 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Tomorrow! Listen to me talk about how to use simulated play to study ancient board games for the AIA Ottawa Society!
About to start the GameTable @costprogramme.bsky.social Working Group 1 meeting at QMUL in London! It’s gonna be a long day of AI talks for this archaeologist 😅 but we will be working together to find ways to more effectively harness AI to study traditional games!
January 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
About to start the GameTable @costprogramme.bsky.social Working Group 1 meeting at QMUL in London! It’s gonna be a long day of AI talks for this archaeologist 😅 but we will be working together to find ways to more effectively harness AI to study traditional games!
If you see this, drop a pic from the last place your passport was stamped
Latvia
Latvia
December 16, 2024 at 9:40 AM
If you see this, drop a pic from the last place your passport was stamped
Latvia
Latvia
I thought we left this in the 90s 🙄🙄
This is definitely going in the lecture material for my Game Studies classes next year
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
This is definitely going in the lecture material for my Game Studies classes next year
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
December 10, 2024 at 7:27 AM
I thought we left this in the 90s 🙄🙄
This is definitely going in the lecture material for my Game Studies classes next year
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
This is definitely going in the lecture material for my Game Studies classes next year
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
My official take on Gladiator II:
November 26, 2024 at 11:08 PM
My official take on Gladiator II:
Here’s an exciting opportunity to join the GameTable COST Action in Athens and learn how to document and identify ancient games. We will be looking at examples throughout Attica, including inside the Parthenon! Apply here:
forms.gle/271vWVnwMy8m...
forms.gle/271vWVnwMy8m...
November 25, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Here’s an exciting opportunity to join the GameTable COST Action in Athens and learn how to document and identify ancient games. We will be looking at examples throughout Attica, including inside the Parthenon! Apply here:
forms.gle/271vWVnwMy8m...
forms.gle/271vWVnwMy8m...
The game is quite similar to backgammon, except for the starting position and a player cannot place two pieces on a point in their starting half of the board. You can play this game at ludii.games/details.php?...!
November 17, 2024 at 11:58 AM
The game is quite similar to backgammon, except for the starting position and a player cannot place two pieces on a point in their starting half of the board. You can play this game at ludii.games/details.php?...!
Charles Cotton’s Compleat Gamester describes a tables game called verkeer that was popular in England in the 1700s but which originated in Holland.
November 17, 2024 at 11:55 AM
Charles Cotton’s Compleat Gamester describes a tables game called verkeer that was popular in England in the 1700s but which originated in Holland.
This fragment of a triktrak or backgammon board with a counter is from Leiden (1425–1475). This type of game was widely known as “tables” in Europe during the Middle Ages; different games were played in different places according to local tastes. ♟️🎲
November 17, 2024 at 11:50 AM
This fragment of a triktrak or backgammon board with a counter is from Leiden (1425–1475). This type of game was widely known as “tables” in Europe during the Middle Ages; different games were played in different places according to local tastes. ♟️🎲
*publishes paper on games as social lubricants*
MDPI’s predatory invitation algorithm:
MDPI’s predatory invitation algorithm:
September 6, 2023 at 10:20 AM
*publishes paper on games as social lubricants*
MDPI’s predatory invitation algorithm:
MDPI’s predatory invitation algorithm:
Starting the day with a fresh harvest of figs 😍
August 12, 2023 at 8:36 AM
Starting the day with a fresh harvest of figs 😍
Today I saw this Roman merels game board, scratched into a tile sometime during the 1-2 century CE, in the Narbo Via museum in Narbonne, France. It came from Jonquières, and the pieces/dice displayed with it are from other sites.
August 9, 2023 at 4:49 PM
Today I saw this Roman merels game board, scratched into a tile sometime during the 1-2 century CE, in the Narbo Via museum in Narbonne, France. It came from Jonquières, and the pieces/dice displayed with it are from other sites.
Throwback to visiting the cult statues of Artemis in Ephesus back in April 😍😍
July 14, 2023 at 2:07 PM
Throwback to visiting the cult statues of Artemis in Ephesus back in April 😍😍
Narwhals ✅
Animal print✅
Js ✅
Gems ✅
Bonus points if you find the Syracuse reference in this pic 🍊
Animal print✅
Js ✅
Gems ✅
Bonus points if you find the Syracuse reference in this pic 🍊
July 8, 2023 at 12:00 PM
Narwhals ✅
Animal print✅
Js ✅
Gems ✅
Bonus points if you find the Syracuse reference in this pic 🍊
Animal print✅
Js ✅
Gems ✅
Bonus points if you find the Syracuse reference in this pic 🍊
Me, lifting hundreds of stone blocks for my dissertation research
July 6, 2023 at 7:25 PM
Me, lifting hundreds of stone blocks for my dissertation research
Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals
July 4, 2023 at 9:17 AM
Reconnecting with my Twitter mutuals