Gojko Johansen Barjamovicis Senior Lecturer in Assyriology and Senior Research Scholar atYale University.He received his training at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and taught at Harvard University 2013-2024.

He is a specialist in the political and social history ofAssyriain the 2nd and 1st millennia BC, and particularly trade and the development of early markets. He has also worked onabsolute datingand thechronologyof theAncient Near East.He was a member of the team that used statistical methods to interrogate the records of ancient merchants found atKültepe/Kanesh near the modern Turkish city ofKayserito locate the probable location of ancient cities.[1]His research also focuses on the development of early markets, trans-regional interaction, early state power, and the functioning of royal courts.

He has written or edited multiple books includingA Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period(2011).[2]

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  1. ^abG. Barjamovic; T. Hertel; M.T. Larsen (2012)."Ups and Downs at Kanesh. Chronology, History and Society in the Old Assyrian Period".PIHANS Volume 120 Chronology, History and Society in the Old Assyrian Period. (Old Assyrian Archives, Studies, Volume 5).ISBN978-90-6258-331-7.ISSN1571-5728.Retrieved25 November2017.
  2. ^"Gojko Barjamovic".NELC (Department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations), Harvard University.Retrieved25 November2017.
  3. ^A Historical Geography of Anatolia in the Old Assyrian Colony Period.Museum Tusculanum Press. 2011.ISBN978-87-635-3645-5.Retrieved19 November2017.{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help)
  4. ^Barjamovic, Gojko; Ryholt, Kim (2016-04-24).Problems of Canonicity and Identity Formation in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.Press.uchicago.edu.ISBN9788763543729.Retrieved19 November2017.
  5. ^Manning, Sturt W; Griggs, Carol B; Lorentzen, Brita; Barjamovic, Gojko; Ramsey, Christopher Bronk; Kromer, Bernd; Wild, Eva Maria (13 July 2016)."Integrated Tree-Ring-Radiocarbon High-Resolution Timeframe to Resolve Earlier Second Millennium BCE Mesopotamian Chronology".PLOS ONE.11(7): e0157144.Bibcode:2016PLoSO..1157144M.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0157144.PMC4943651.PMID27409585.
  6. ^Barjamovic, Gojko; Chaney, Thomas; Coşar, Kerem; Hortaçsu, Ali (November 2017)."Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age".NBER Working Paper No. 23992.doi:10.3386/w23992.
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