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Gojko Barjamovic is a Senior Lecturer & Senior Research Scholar in Assyriology at Yale University, joining from Harvard University in 2024. His research focuses on the economic and social history of Assyria in the 2nd millennium BCE, ancient foodways (including the Yale Babylonian Recipes project), human aDNA, and absolute chronology. He collaborates with economists to study early markets and trans-regional price convergence, bridging archaeology, economics, and textual analysis.
- Affiliations: Yale University (current), Harvard University (previous), University of Copenhagen (education).
Research Interests: Barjamovic’s work spans ancient trade networks, Bronze Age Anatolia, and the intersection of Assyrian, Hittite, and Mesopotamian studies. His interdisciplinary approach integrates archaeological data, cuneiform texts, and scientific methods to explore topics like commodity exchange, urbanization, and political frontiers.
Key contributions include editing volumes on ancient libraries (e.g., Libraries before Alexandria), analyzing the Uluburun shipwreck’s tin origins, and studying ceremonial plant consumption in Anatolia. His research highlights Eurasian connectivity and the socio-economic dynamics of early states.
Publications emphasize trade technologies, ancient economies, and archaeological methodologies, with notable works on Kültepe’s commercial networks and the Hittite palace architecture. His work underscores the role of small-scale communities in ancient trade systems, challenging traditional narratives of centralized state dominance.
