Flint Dibble
Archaeologist and science communicator
Flint Dibble is an American archaeologist and science communicator who is currently (2026) based at Cardiff University, where he holds a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellowship leading the ZOOCRETE project, studying the zooarchaeology of historical Crete. He is not of Welsh descent — his inclusion here reflects his current professional home rather than any ancestral claim, in keeping with this site's broader remit of covering people with a genuine connection to Wales, not only those born or descended from it.
Dibble's academic background spans the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Cincinnati, and postgraduate work at the University of Sheffield, and he has excavated at sites across Greece, Albania, Egypt, France, Italy, Romania and Ukraine. His research focuses on foodways, animal management and environmental change in ancient Greece. He is the son of the American Palaeolithic archaeologist Harold L. Dibble.
Dibble gained significant public attention in 2024 when he appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience for a four-and-a-half-hour debate with pseudoarchaeology author Graham Hancock, challenging Hancock's claims of a lost advanced Ice Age civilisation. The debate was widely praised by archaeologists and science communicators for its rigorous, evidence-based rebuttal, and later that year Dibble won the Skeptic's 2024 Ockham Award for Skeptical Activism for his broader work debunking pseudoarchaeology.