Flint Dibble
{{Short description|American archaeologist and science communicator}}
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| name = Flint Dibble
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| nationality = American
| occupation = Archaeologist
| education = University of Pennsylvania (BA)
University of Cincinnati (MA, PhD)
| thesis_title = Politika Zoa: Animals and Social Change in Ancient Greece
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| thesis_year = 2017
| doctoral_advisor = Kathleen Lynch
| workplaces = Cardiff University
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| parents = Harold L. Dibble (father)
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Flint Dibble is an American archaeologist and science communicator, whose research focuses on foodways in ancient Greece, and whose science communication promotes the field of archaeology and debunks pseudoarchaeology. He teaches at Cardiff University, where he is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow leading the ZOOCRETE project. He is the son of archaeologist Harold L. Dibble.
He debated author and promoter of pseudoarchaeology Graham Hancock on The Joe Rogan Experience, and he produces an archaeology focused YouTube channel.{{Cite web |last=Barras |first=Colin |title=The archaeologist fighting claims about an advanced lost civilisation |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26435130-400-the-archaeologist-fighting-claims-about-an-advanced-lost-civilisation/ |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=New Scientist |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Marshall |first=Michael |date=2024-10-19 |title=Dr Flint Dibble wins 2024 Skeptical Activism Ockham award |url=https://www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/10/dr-flint-dibble-wins-2024-skeptical-activism-ockham-award/ |access-date=2024-10-31 |website=The Skeptic |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Archaeology with Flint Dibble |url=https://www.youtube.com/@FlintDibble/featured |access-date=2024-11-01 |publisher=Flint Diddle |via=YouTube |language=en}}{{cite news |last=Brewis |first=Harriet |title="Flint Dibble on his controversial Joe Rogan debate with Graham Hancock – and won" |date=2024-05-04 |url=https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/joe-rogan-flint-dibble-debate |access-date=2024-11-01|work=www.indy100.com}}
Education
Dibble received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. His 2004 thesis, "Magic, Drugs, and Magic Drugs: A Survey of Wormwood in the Greek Magical Papyri", was supervised by Peter Struck. In 2010, he received an M.A. in Classical Archaeology from University of Cincinnati. He did postgraduate work at University of Sheffield, Department of Archaeology under Paul Halstead. He received his PhD in 2017 from University of Cincinnati, where his dissertation, "Politika Zoa: Animals and Social Change in Ancient Greece", was supervised by Kathleen Lynch.{{Cite web |last=Dibble |first=Flint |title=Dr Flint Dibble - People |url=https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/dibblew |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20241117221120/https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/dibblew |archivedate=2024-11-17 |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=Cardiff University |language=en}}
Dibble was a senior associate member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Archaeological work
His research touches on topics of urbanism, climate change, religious ritual, and everyday life. His current project, ZOOCRETE: The Zooarchaeology of Historical Crete: A Multiscalar Approach to Animals in Ancient Greece, combines archaeological, textual, and biomolecular evidence for the human management and consumption of animals.{{r|bio}}
= Fieldwork =
In 2015, Dibble and Alison Fields uncovered a remarkable Mycenaean grave in Greece. The Smithsonian described that it yielded "bronze basins, weapons and armor, ... gold and silver cups; hundreds of beads made of carnelian, amethyst, amber and gold; more than 50 stone seals intricately carved with goddesses, lions and bulls; and four stunning gold rings", and noted that "This was ... among the most spectacular archaeological discoveries in Greece in more than half a century".{{cite journal |last1=Marchant |first1=Jo |title=This 3,500-Year-Old Greek Tomb Upended What We Thought We Knew About the Roots of Western Civilization |journal=Smithsonian Magazine |date=January 2017 |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/golden-warrior-greek-tomb-exposes-roots-western-civilization-180961441/ |access-date=1 November 2024 |language=en |archive-date=23 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223143643/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/golden-warrior-greek-tomb-exposes-roots-western-civilization-180961441/ |url-status=live }}
Debating Graham Hancock
In 2024, Dibble appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast opposite Graham Hancock, who is a popular promotor of the pseudoarchaeological theory that there once existed an advanced Ice Age civilization that was destroyed in a global cataclysm, as popularized on Ancient Apocalypse, a 2022 documentary series produced by Netflix. Dibble had criticized Hancock on X/Twitter and was brought onto the podcast to debate Hancock. The episode lasted for four and a half hours.{{r|Indy100}}{{Citation |title=Joe Rogan Experience #2136 - Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble |date=2024-04-16 |url=https://open.spotify.com/episode/3rsD5v3sFlZOmck7oNrZJL |access-date=2024-11-01 |language=en |archive-date=2024-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240916201939/https://open.spotify.com/episode/3rsD5v3sFlZOmck7oNrZJL |url-status=live }}
Archaeology Review published a review of the debate, finding that Hancock's assumptions were "remarkably short-sighted and ignorant", and that Dibble made a thorough job of reviewing the state of the evidence.{{cite journal |last1=Feagans |first1=Carl |title=Archaeologist Helps Pseudoarchaeologist find His Lane |journal=Archaeology Review |date=30 April 2024 |url=https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2024/04/archaeologist-helps-pseudoarchaeologist-find-his-lane/ |access-date=1 November 2024 |archive-date=17 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240717152733/https://ahotcupofjoe.net/2024/04/archaeologist-helps-pseudoarchaeologist-find-his-lane/ |url-status=live }}
Plans for an earlier debate in January 2023 had to be cancelled when Dibble was told his cancer had returned.{{cite web |last1=Dibble |first1=Flint |title=Why I Talked to Pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan |url=https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/why-i-talked-to-pseudoarchaeologist-graham-hancock-on-joe-rogan/ |website=ZME Science |access-date=30 May 2025 |date=3 June 2024}}
Selected publications
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- {{Cite journal |last1=Dibble |first1=Flint |last2=Finné |first2=Martin |date=2021-09-30 |title=Socioenvironmental change as a process: Changing foodways as adaptation to climate change in South Greece from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618221002445 |journal=Quaternary International |series=Human Adaptations in Mediterranean Environments |volume=597 |pages=50–62 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2021.04.024 |bibcode=2021QuInt.597...50D |issn=1040-6182 |access-date=2024-11-01 |archive-date=2023-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113170324/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1040618221002445 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Dibble |first=Flint |date=2021-04-01 |title=Bones around town: Taphonomic patterns from civic feasting and residential dining contexts at Late Archaic Azoria, Crete |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X20305629 |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports |volume=36 |pages=102771 |doi=10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102771 |bibcode=2021JArSR..36j2771D |issn=2352-409X |url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Dibble |first1=Flint |last2=Fallu |first2=Daniel J. |date=2020-04-01 |title=New data from old bones: A taphonomic reassessment of Early Iron Age beef ranching at Nichoria, Greece |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X1930313X |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports |volume=30 |pages=102234 |doi=10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102234 |bibcode=2020JArSR..30j2234D |issn=2352-409X |access-date=2024-11-01 |archive-date=2022-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220510120548/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X1930313X |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}
- {{Citation |last=Dibble |first=W. Flint |title=Animal bones |date=2018-05-31 |pages=87–92 |editor-last=Tsipopoulou |editor-first=Metaxia |url=https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/144192/ |access-date=2024-10-31 |publisher=INSTAP Academic Press |isbn=978-1-931534-95-6 |archive-date=2024-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241007120803/https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/144192/ |url-status=live }}
- {{Cite journal |last1=Weiberg |first1=Erika |last2=Unkel |first2=Ingmar |last3=Kouli |first3=Katerina |last4=Holmgren |first4=Karin |last5=Avramidis |first5=Pavlos |last6=Bonnier |first6=Anton |last7=Dibble |first7=Flint |last8=Finné |first8=Martin |last9=Izdebski |first9=Adam |last10=Katrantsiotis |first10=Christos |last11=Stocker |first11=Sharon R. |last12=Andwinge |first12=Maria |last13=Baika |first13=Kalliopi |last14=Boyd |first14=Meighan |last15=Heymann |first15=Christian |date=2016-03-15 |title=The socio-environmental history of the Peloponnese during the Holocene: Towards an integrated understanding of the past |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |series=Special Issue: Mediterranean Holocene Climate, Environment and Human Societies |volume=136 |pages=40–65 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.10.042 |bibcode=2016QSRv..136...40W |issn=0277-3791|doi-access=free }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Dibble |first=W. Flint |date=2015-12-18 |title=Data Collection in Zooarchaeology: Incorporating Touch-Screen, Speech-Recognition, Barcodes, and GIS |url=https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/393 |journal=Ethnobiology Letters |language=en |volume=6 |issue=2 |pages=249–257 |doi=10.14237/ebl.6.2.2015.393 |issn=2159-8126 |access-date=2024-11-01 |archive-date=2024-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241008112643/https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/393 |url-status=live |doi-access=free }}
- {{Citation |last1=Sullivan |first1=Alan P. |title=Site Formation Processes |date=2014 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology |pages=6687–6701 |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Claire |url=https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_211 |access-date=2024-10-31 |place=New York, NY |publisher=Springer |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_211 |isbn=978-1-4419-0465-2 |last2=Dibble |first2=William Flint |url-access=subscription }}
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References
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/@FlintDibble/featured YouTube channel]
- [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Flint-Dibble ResearchGate profile]
- [https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=db726CcAAAAJ Google Scholar profile]
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Category:American archaeologists
Category:University of Pennsylvania alumni
Category:University of Cincinnati alumni
Category:Academics of Cardiff University