Dusan Boric

Dušan Borić trained as a prehistoric archaeologist at Cambridge and wrote his PhD on hunter-fisher-gatherers and the first farmers of the central Balkans in the Danube Gorges region, particularly focusing on the celebrated site of Lepenski Vir. His subsequent work focused on the study of foraging and the first farming societies in the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean by employing various scientific methods, such as isotopic analysis and radiocarbon dating. He has written about various aspects of mortuary and corporeal symbolism, social memory, and household archaeology in prehistoric periods. He believes in the importance of archaeological field work and has conducted excavations at a number of Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic sites in Serbia, Montenegro, and Croatia with experience of working on research projects in Italy, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, and Brazil. He was Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Cardiff University in Great Britain and NOMIS Foundation Fellow at Columbia University in the City of New York. Currently he splits his time between Sapienza University of Rome and New York University. His recent books include Deathways at Lepenski Vir (2016) and Foraging Assemblages (2021).