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 archaeology and debunks pseudoarchaeology. He teaches at Cardiff University, where he is the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow leading the ZOOCRETE project. He is the son of archaeologist Harold L. 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.

Debating Graham Hancock In 2024, Dibble appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast opposite Graham Hancock, who is a popular promotor of the pseudoarchaeological hypothesis 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.

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.

Plans for an earlier debate in January 2023 had to be cancelled when Dibble was told his cancer had returned.

Selected publications