Dries Daems

Figure 5 from the manuscript: Networks of interaction and material culture for two runs of the ArchMatNet model. Networks (a) are from a run of the model where the parameter uniqueTraits is set to false, meaning each band has identical starting traits. Networks (b) include networks where uniqueTraits are set to true, and each band unique starting traits. Nodes are colored by band and numbered by camp. Only the strongest 50% of links are shown. The color and size of the edges represent the strength (or weight) of the relationship between each node.

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...

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🏺 BIAA Reference Collections in Action: Supporting Research at Türkmen-Karahöyük

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NMC Spotlight: Stanley Klassen

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

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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!

No stats anymore, but only textual analysis of the classical sources from now on then? ;-)

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🎓 @Aarhus_Uni: "Cradles of Agrodiversity in Northern Europe"

Explore pre-Roman agriculture using soil science & bio-archaeology. Perfect for Geoscience/Archaeology grads.

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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.

We use an innovative combination of least cost path analysis and mutual information to explore the relative contributions of geographical proximity and potential social, economic, and political factors underlying the distributions of late Hellenistic and early Roman pottery.

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…

Very happy to see our latest paper published in JAS: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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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/...

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!