Gojko Johansen Barjamovic is Senior Lecturer on Assyriology at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. He is a specialist in the political and social history of

Assyria Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: , romanized: ''māt Aššur''; syc, ܐܬܘܪ, ʾāthor) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state at times controlling regional territories in the indigenous lands of the A ...

in the 2nd and 1st millennia BC, and particularly trade and the development of early markets. He has also worked on

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and the

chronology Chronology (from Latin ''chronologia'', from Ancient Greek , ''chrónos'', "time"; and , '' -logia'') is the science of arranging events in their order of occurrence in time. Consider, for example, the use of a timeline or sequence of events. I ...

of the

Ancient Near East The ancient Near East was the home of early civilizations within a region roughly corresponding to the modern Middle East: Mesopotamia (modern Iraq, southeast Turkey, southwest Iran and northeastern Syria), ancient Egypt, ancient Iran ( Elam, ...

. He was a member of the team that used statistical methods to interrogate the records of ancient merchants found at

Kültepe Kültepe ( Turkish: ''ash-hill''), also known as Kanesh or Nesha, is an archaeological site in Kayseri Province, Turkey, inhabited from the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC, in the Early Bronze Age.Kloekhorst, Alwin, (2019)Kanišite Hittite: ...

/Kanesh near the modern Turkish city of

Kayseri Kayseri (; el, Καισάρεια) is a large Industrialisation, industrialised List of cities in Turkey, city in Central Anatolia, Turkey, and the capital of Kayseri Province, Kayseri province. The Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality area is comp ...

to locate the probable location of ancient cities.

Selected publications

* ''A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period'' (2011). * ''Ups and Downs at Kanesh'' (2012), co-authored with T. Hertel and M.T. Larsen. * ''Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia'' (2016). (Editor with

Kim Ryholt Kim Steven Bardrum Ryholt (born 19 June 1970) is a professor of Egyptology at the University of Copenhagen and a specialist on Egyptian history and literature. He is director of the research centeCanon and Identity Formation in the Earliest Litera ...

). * ''Integrated Tree-Ring-Radiocarbon High-Resolution Timeframe to Resolve Earlier Second Millennium BCE Mesopotamian Chronology'' (2016). Sturt Manning, Carol B. Griggs, Brita Lorentzen, Gojko Barjamovic,

Christopher Ramsey Christopher Bronk Ramsey is a British physicist, mathematician and specialist in radiocarbon dating. He is a professor at the University of Oxford and is the incumbent Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU), a post he has held s ...

, Bernd Kromer and Eva Maria Wild. * ''Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age'' (2017). Gojko Barjamovic, Thomas Chaney, Kerem Coşar and Ali Hortaçsu.

References

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