Dušan Borić

University of Cambridge (U.K.)

Consulting Director for the NOMIS Project on Prehistoric Mobility and the Spread of Agriculture in Eurasia. 

2020-2021: Fall and Spring

NOMIS Foundation Fellow

Dušan Borić received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and was a Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom before joining Columbia's Italian Academy to work with the NOMIS Foundation Project on migrations and mobility. He is an anthropological archaeologist interested in dynamics of culture change and cultural transmission processes. His primary foci have been foraging and the first farming societies in the Balkans and in the eastern Mediterranean. He has 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. He is also interested in the integration of science-based methodologies and archaeological interpretation, primarily in relation to bioarchaeology, archaethanatology, palaeodietary studies, and radiocarbon dating in conjunction with Bayesian statistical modeling.

His published volumes include Archaeology and Memory (2010) and Past Bodies: Body-Centred Research in Archaeology (2008), the latter co-edited with John Robb. His most recent monograph, Deathways at Lepenski Vir: Patterns in Mortuary Practice (2016), explores the role of mortuary data in reconstructing diverse practice-based rituals and perceptions of the living and dead body throughout the Mesolithic and Neolithic use of this iconic site of European Prehistory. Methodologically, the book provides a comprehensive case for the necessity of integrating archaeological and bioarchaeological data. He has conducted archaeological field work at a number of Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic sites in Serbia and Montenegro, and participated in research projects in Italy, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, and Brazil.

See more about "On the Move": Prehistoric Mobility and the Spread of Agriculture in Eurasia (the NOMIS Foundation project)