Dusan Boric

Visiting Scholar

Email: bd2290@nyu.edu

Bio

I am an anthropological archaeologist and bioarchaeologist interested in dynamics of culture change and cultural transmission processes in early prehistory. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and was a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom until 2017, before joining Columbia University’s Italian Academy to work as the PI of the NOMIS Foundation Project on migrations and mobility. Since 2021, I am a RTD-B at the Department of Environmental Biology at Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. My primary foci have been foraging and the first farming societies in the Balkans and in the eastern Mediterranean. I have written about various aspects of mortuary and corporeal symbolism, including the study of personal adornments and representational imagery, mortuary practices, social memory, and household archaeology in prehistoric periods. I am also interested in the integration of science-based methodologies and archaeological interpretation, primarily in relation to bioarchaeology, archaeothanatology, palaeodietary studies, and radiocarbon dating in conjunction with Bayesian statistical modeling.

Research Interests