• Source: Flint Dibble

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 archeology and debunks pseudoarcheology. He teaches at Cardiff University, where he is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow leading the ZOOCRETE project. He is the son of archeologist Harold L. Dibble. He debated author and promoter of pseudoarcheology Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan Experience, and he produces an archeology focused YouTube channel.




Education


Dibble received his B.A. from University of Pennsylvania. His 2004 Honors 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.
Dibble was a senior associate member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
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.




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.




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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. This was ... among the most spectacular archaeological discoveries in Greece in more than half a century."




Debating Graham Hancock


In 2024, the then little known Dibble appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast opposite Graham Hancock, who is a popular promotor of the pseudo archeological 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. Flint wore his trademark fedora.
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.




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External links


Official website at Cardiff University
YouTube channel
ResearchGate profile
Google Scholar profile

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