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Dimitri Nakassis | |
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| Born | 1975 (age 49–50) |
| Awards | MacArthur fellowship |
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| Alma mater | University of Michigan University of Texas |
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| Institutions | University of Colorado Boulder |
Dimitri Nakassis (born 1975) [1] is an American classicist and archaeologist,and is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. [2] He is also co-director of the Western Argolid Regional Project. He was awarded a MacArthur fellowship in 2015. [3]
He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A.,and from the University of Texas with a Ph.D.
Nakassis's work focuses on the archaeology and scripts of Mycenaean Greece,in particular the administrative practices of the state. [4] His findings are challenging assumptions that the palace economy of Mycenaean Greece had little in common with the democratic city-states of Ancient Greece. [5] Since 2013,he has co-directed a project using Reflectance Transformation Imaging to create detailed 3D images of the Linear B tablets found in the Palace of Nestor. [2] [5]
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