Dimitri Nakassis
Biographic Data
| ID | 78328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitri Nakassis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitri |
| FAMILY NAME | Nakassis |
| SIGNATURE | NAKASSIS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0783-2702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Time and the other Greeks
This chapter argues that the dominant historical periodization of the early Greek world (ca. 1400–700 BCE) is premised on a specific master narrative that relies on Orientalist tropes. This narrative is most clearly articulated in the work of Moses Finley and has become a major force in Anglo-American scholarly literature. Finley and others characterize the Bronze Age as essentially Near Eastern in character, a characterization that was premised …
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Demographic Dynamics of Publishing in the American Journal of Archaeology
This article presents the results of a demographic survey of authors who published in the American Journal of Archaeology between 2000 and 2020. We sought to better understand the demographics of knowledge production in one of the major English-language journals for Mediterranean archaeology, and, by extension, in the field in general. The survey, delivered by email in the spring of 2021, asked authors about their gender, race or ethnicity, natio…
Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in Greece in 2018
The archaeological fieldwork conducted in Greece in 2018 under the aegis of the Canadian Institute in Greece (CIG) is summarized based on the presentation given by the director at the Institute’s annual Open Meeting in Athens in May 2019
Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in Greece in 2017
The archaeological fieldwork conducted in Greece in 2017 under the aegis of the Canadian Institute in Greece (CIG) is summarized based on the presentation given by the director at the institute’s annual Open Meeting in Athens in May 2018
Survey and the 7th century in the Western Argolid
The past two decades have witnessed a major change in how archaeologists understand the Late Roman and Early Medieval landscape of Greece. The rise of survey archaeology in the late-20th century fueled a growing awareness of the ‘busy countryside’ of Late Antiquity. This complemented work in urban areas across Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean more broadly by demonstrating that Late Roman cities and their countryside experienced continued pros…
The Potential Relationship Between Archaeological Artifact Exposure and Surface Geomorphic Processes: Northeastern Peloponnese, Greece
Complex interactions between topography, near-surface geology, active tectonics, climate, and human activity shape a landscape, conditioning archaeological deposits and making sediment deposits from surface erosion important archives. There is a potential relationship between the intensity of geomorphic processes and surface artifact distribution. This study assesses the potential relationship between soil erosion by water and the spatial distrib…
Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange
This collection of papers is the third and final installment in a series meant to update the archaeological study of Aegean Bronze Age economies based on current research in economic anthropology and new archaeological and textual data from Minoan and Mycenaean states. The first collection, titled ‘Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies’, was published in the American Journal of Archaeology in 2011 (volume 115.2). The second, titled ‘Crafts,…
Ke-Ra-me-ja: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
The Minoan Goddess(es): Textual Evidence for Minoan Religion
From Social Structure to Social Activity
A Prosopography of Mycenaean Pylos
This book revises our understanding of Mycenaean society through a detailed prosopographical analysis of individuals attested in the administrative texts from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in southwestern Greece, ca. 1200 BC.
Paupers and Peasants and Princes and Kings
Works Cited
Indexes
From Proper Names to People Proper
Soldiers and Landowners
Smiths and Herders
Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos
This book revises our understanding of Mycenaean society through a detailed analysis of individuals attested in the administrative texts from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in southwestern Greece, ca. 1200 BC. It argues that conventional models of Mycenaean society, which focus on administrative titles and terms, can be improved through the study of named individuals. A new, methodologically innovative prosopography demonstrates that many named in…
Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece: Introduction
Past models of Mycenaean political economies have overemphasized the role of redistribution, thereby discouraging research into other modes of exchange. New perspectives have effectively questioned the hypothesis that palatial control over the economy was absolute, however. Consequently, it is now possible to imagine significant economic production and exchange outside of palatial purview, especially given the long and well-established history of…
Prestige and Interest: Feasting and the King at Mycenaean Pylos
Dimitri Nakassis, PRESTIGE AND INTEREST: Feasting and the King at Mycenaean Pylos, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 81, No. 1 (January–March 2012), pp. 1-30
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Introduction: Why Redistribution
This collection of papers explores the role of redistribution in Minoan and Mycenaean economies
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Introduction: Why Redistribution
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such.We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading.Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate goods …
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such. We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading. Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate good…
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 75, Number 4, October-December 2006
Siteless Survey and Intensive Data Collection in an Artifact-rich Environment: Case Studies from the Eastern Corinthia, Greece
Archaeological survey in the eastern Mediterranean has become increasingly intensive over the last 20 years, producing greater and more diverse data for smaller units of space. While complex, siteless data sets have allowed more sophisticated reconstructions of natural and cultural regional histories, the employment of more intensive methods has refocused the scope of Mediterranean surveys from region to ‘micro-region’. Such increasingly myopic a…
The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato
The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato. John Heath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. vii. 392 pp
Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos
This book revises our understanding of Mycenaean society through a detailed analysis of individuals attested in the administrative texts from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in southwestern Greece, ca. 1200 BC. It argues that conventional models of Mycenaean society, which focus on administrative titles and terms, can be improved through the study of named individuals. A new, methodologically innovative prosopography demonstrates that many named in…
Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece: Introduction
Past models of Mycenaean political economies have overemphasized the role of redistribution, thereby discouraging research into other modes of exchange. New perspectives have effectively questioned the hypothesis that palatial control over the economy was absolute, however. Consequently, it is now possible to imagine significant economic production and exchange outside of palatial purview, especially given the long and well-established history of…
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such.We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading.Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate goods …
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such. We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading. Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate good…
Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange
This collection of papers is the third and final installment in a series meant to update the archaeological study of Aegean Bronze Age economies based on current research in economic anthropology and new archaeological and textual data from Minoan and Mycenaean states. The first collection, titled ‘Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies’, was published in the American Journal of Archaeology in 2011 (volume 115.2). The second, titled ‘Crafts,…
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Introduction: Why Redistribution
This collection of papers explores the role of redistribution in Minoan and Mycenaean economies
Demographic Dynamics of Publishing in the American Journal of Archaeology
This article presents the results of a demographic survey of authors who published in the American Journal of Archaeology between 2000 and 2020. We sought to better understand the demographics of knowledge production in one of the major English-language journals for Mediterranean archaeology, and, by extension, in the field in general. The survey, delivered by email in the spring of 2021, asked authors about their gender, race or ethnicity, natio…
Survey and the 7th century in the Western Argolid
The past two decades have witnessed a major change in how archaeologists understand the Late Roman and Early Medieval landscape of Greece. The rise of survey archaeology in the late-20th century fueled a growing awareness of the ‘busy countryside’ of Late Antiquity. This complemented work in urban areas across Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean more broadly by demonstrating that Late Roman cities and their countryside experienced continued pros…
Prestige and Interest: Feasting and the King at Mycenaean Pylos
Dimitri Nakassis, PRESTIGE AND INTEREST: Feasting and the King at Mycenaean Pylos, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 81, No. 1 (January–March 2012), pp. 1-30
The Potential Relationship Between Archaeological Artifact Exposure and Surface Geomorphic Processes: Northeastern Peloponnese, Greece
Complex interactions between topography, near-surface geology, active tectonics, climate, and human activity shape a landscape, conditioning archaeological deposits and making sediment deposits from surface erosion important archives. There is a potential relationship between the intensity of geomorphic processes and surface artifact distribution. This study assesses the potential relationship between soil erosion by water and the spatial distrib…
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Introduction: Why Redistribution
Siteless Survey and Intensive Data Collection in an Artifact-rich Environment: Case Studies from the Eastern Corinthia, Greece
Archaeological survey in the eastern Mediterranean has become increasingly intensive over the last 20 years, producing greater and more diverse data for smaller units of space. While complex, siteless data sets have allowed more sophisticated reconstructions of natural and cultural regional histories, the employment of more intensive methods has refocused the scope of Mediterranean surveys from region to ‘micro-region’. Such increasingly myopic a…
The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Integrated Methods for a Dynamic Landscape
Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens - Volume 75, Number 4, October-December 2006
The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato
The Talking Greeks: Speech, Animals, and the Other in Homer, Aeschylus, and Plato. John Heath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. vii. 392 pp
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Introduction: Why Redistribution
This collection of papers explores the role of redistribution in Minoan and Mycenaean economies
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Introduction: Why Redistribution
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such.We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading.Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate goods …
Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies. Redistributive Economies from a Theoretical and Cross-Cultural Perspective
In this article, we address the historical question of why Aegean Bronze Age economies are characterized as redistributive systems and whether it is appropriate to continue to describe them as such. We argue that characterizing the political economies of the Aegean as redistributive is inaccurate and misleading. Instead, we suggest it is more fruitful to describe how specific prehistoric social institutions were used to organize and allocate good…
Prestige and Interest: Feasting and the King at Mycenaean Pylos
Dimitri Nakassis, PRESTIGE AND INTEREST: Feasting and the King at Mycenaean Pylos, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 81, No. 1 (January–March 2012), pp. 1-30
From Social Structure to Social Activity
A Prosopography of Mycenaean Pylos
This book revises our understanding of Mycenaean society through a detailed prosopographical analysis of individuals attested in the administrative texts from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in southwestern Greece, ca. 1200 BC.
Paupers and Peasants and Princes and Kings
Works Cited
Indexes
From Proper Names to People Proper
Soldiers and Landowners
Smiths and Herders
Individuals and Society in Mycenaean Pylos
This book revises our understanding of Mycenaean society through a detailed analysis of individuals attested in the administrative texts from the Palace of Nestor at Pylos in southwestern Greece, ca. 1200 BC. It argues that conventional models of Mycenaean society, which focus on administrative titles and terms, can be improved through the study of named individuals. A new, methodologically innovative prosopography demonstrates that many named in…
Crafts, Specialists, and Markets in Mycenaean Greece: Introduction
Past models of Mycenaean political economies have overemphasized the role of redistribution, thereby discouraging research into other modes of exchange. New perspectives have effectively questioned the hypothesis that palatial control over the economy was absolute, however. Consequently, it is now possible to imagine significant economic production and exchange outside of palatial purview, especially given the long and well-established history of…
Ke-Ra-me-ja: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
The Minoan Goddess(es): Textual Evidence for Minoan Religion
Reciprocity in Aegean Palatial Societies: Gifts, Debt, and the Foundations of Economic Exchange
This collection of papers is the third and final installment in a series meant to update the archaeological study of Aegean Bronze Age economies based on current research in economic anthropology and new archaeological and textual data from Minoan and Mycenaean states. The first collection, titled ‘Redistribution in Aegean Palatial Societies’, was published in the American Journal of Archaeology in 2011 (volume 115.2). The second, titled ‘Crafts,…
The Potential Relationship Between Archaeological Artifact Exposure and Surface Geomorphic Processes: Northeastern Peloponnese, Greece
Complex interactions between topography, near-surface geology, active tectonics, climate, and human activity shape a landscape, conditioning archaeological deposits and making sediment deposits from surface erosion important archives. There is a potential relationship between the intensity of geomorphic processes and surface artifact distribution. This study assesses the potential relationship between soil erosion by water and the spatial distrib…
Survey and the 7th century in the Western Argolid
The past two decades have witnessed a major change in how archaeologists understand the Late Roman and Early Medieval landscape of Greece. The rise of survey archaeology in the late-20th century fueled a growing awareness of the ‘busy countryside’ of Late Antiquity. This complemented work in urban areas across Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean more broadly by demonstrating that Late Roman cities and their countryside experienced continued pros…
Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in Greece in 2018
The archaeological fieldwork conducted in Greece in 2018 under the aegis of the Canadian Institute in Greece (CIG) is summarized based on the presentation given by the director at the Institute’s annual Open Meeting in Athens in May 2019
Fieldwork of the Canadian Institute in Greece in 2017
The archaeological fieldwork conducted in Greece in 2017 under the aegis of the Canadian Institute in Greece (CIG) is summarized based on the presentation given by the director at the institute’s annual Open Meeting in Athens in May 2018
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