Dries Daems
@driesdaems.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Spatial Digital Humanities at VU Amsterdam ABM, Network Analysis, Pottery studies & Computational Archaeology
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...
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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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
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...
From Artifacts to Interaction: Testing Assumptions in Archaeolog...
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🚨 NEWS 🏺 BIAA Reference Collections in Action: Supporting Research at Türkmen-Karahöyük 🗞️ Read more at biaa.ac.uk/biaa-referen...
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
NMC Spotlight: Stanley Klassen
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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
New paper out!: doi.org/10.1515/opar.... Open access!
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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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
The cradles of agrodiversity in Northern Europe
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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.
Very happy to see our latest paper published in JAS: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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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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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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!