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Dries Daems is an archaeologist specializing in the Iron Age to Hellenistic Mediterranean. His research interests include social complexity, urbanism, connectivity and information exchange, artisanal production, and human-environment interactions through computational modeling and pottery studies. He is currently Assistant Professor in Spatial Digital Humanities at VU Amsterdam and Visiting Professor at Helsinki University. He has held positions at KU Leuven, Koç University, and Middle East Technical University.
Keywords
- CC Archaeology
- Digital Humanities
- Agent-based modelling
- Network science
- Spatial Analysis
- DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World
- Hellenistic period
- Ceramics
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Social Complexity and Complex Systems in Archaeology
Daems, D., 23 Feb 2021, Taylor and Francis.Research output: Book / Report › Book › Academic › peer-review
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Shaping koine. Situating the Hellenistic pottery at Sagalassos and environs within a wider world
Daems, D. & Poblome, J., 24 Mar 2026, From east to west and back again. Societies, economies and ceramics in the Hellenistic world: Proceedings of the 5th Conference of IARPotHP, Seville, June 2021, 22th-25th. p. 545-556Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review
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Simulating resource exploitation strategies in Iron Age to Hellenistic communities in southwest Anatolia
Daems, D. & Boogers, S., 2026, Resources in Premodern Societies.: New Approaches to Lifeworlds, Skills and Complexity. Leiden: Sidestone Press, p. 247-262Research output: Chapter in Book / Report / Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
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The Myth of Hellenization: The Early to Middle Hellenistic Period (ca. 300–150 BCE) in Sagalassos and Pisidia (Southwest Anatolia)
Beaujean, B. L. A. & Daems, D., Oct 2025, In: American Journal of Archaeology. 129, 4, p. 511-537 27 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations
Cortell-Nicolau, A., Carrignon, S., Rodíguez-Palomo, I., Hromada, D., Kahlenberg, R., Mes, A., Priss, D., Yaworsky, P., Zhang, X., Brainerd, L., Lewis, J., Redhouse, D., Simmons, C., Coto-Sarmiento, M., Daems, D., Deb, A., Lawrence, D., O'Brien, M., Riede, F. & Rubio-Campillo, X. & 1 others, , May 2025, In: Journal of Archaeological Science. 177, p. 1-11 11 p., 106179.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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A Cultural History of the Ancient World 2: The Hellenistic World, Italy and Rome
Allan, R. 1/09/25 → 31/08/26
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3D-CERA-ML: 3D Scanning and Generative Machine Learning Models for Archaeological Ceramics
Daems, D. (Principal Investigator)
1/06/25 → 31/05/26
Project: Research
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Simulating globalisation in the Roman Empire. A multiscalar and multidimensional computational analysis of socio-economic dynamics in the Lower Rhine region (19 BCE – 275 CE).
Verhagen, P. (Principal Investigator), van der Knaap, L. (PhD candidate), Groenhuijzen, M. (Project Researcher), Daems, D. (Project Researcher) & Peixe, A. (Project Researcher)
1/01/25 → 31/10/29
Project: Research
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ModelPlaza: an open platform for computer simulations of past socio-ecological systems
Verhagen, P. (Principal Investigator) & Daems, D. (Project Researcher)
1/04/24 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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ModelPlaza: an open platform for computer simulations of past socio-ecological systems
Verhagen, P. (Principal Investigator), Daems, D. (Project Researcher), De Kleijn, M. (Project Researcher), Maassen, J. (Project Researcher) & Cahen, E. (Project Researcher)
1/04/24 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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AI and Archaeology
Verhagen, P. (Organiser), Daems, D. (Organiser) & Crielaard, J. P. (Organiser)
15 Jan 2026Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Seminar › Academic
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CAA2025
Angourakis, A. (Organiser), Daems, D. (Organiser), Romanowska, I. (Organiser) & Verhagen, P. (Organiser)
5 May 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Workshop › Academic