Flint Dibble

He debated author and promoter of pseudoarchaeology Graham Hancock on The Joe Rogan Experience, and he produces an archaeology focused YouTube channel.

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.

Dibble was a senior associate member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

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.

In 2015, Dibble as a graduate student was part of a University of Cincinnati team that discovered a remarkable Mycenaean grave in Greece. The Smithsonian Magazine reported 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".