Dr. Maja Gori

Maja Gori holds a PhD in Pre- and Protohistory and Aegean Archaeology from the University of Heidelberg in cotutelle de thèse with the University of Paris 1 Sorbonne Panthéon. After this she had worked as postdoctoral researcher at the Ruhr University of Bochum, University of Heidelberg, University of Amsterdam and University of Mainz. In 2017 she got the Habilitation as professon in Italy. Since 2018 she holds a permanent position as researcher at the CNR-ISPC Italian National Research Council, Institute for Heritage Science. In 2024 she got promoted to senior researcher. M. Gori specializes in prehistoric archaeology with a focus on the Balkans and Central Mediterranean. Her interest stretches from mobility patterns and cultural transmission, the relationship between past identities and material culture, to development of archaeological theory, network analysis and Agent-based Modelling, as well as archaeological discourses in present day identity building and political uses of archaeology.

• M. Gori, A. Hellmuth Kramberger, T. Krapf & G. Recchia (eds.) Archaeology of Mountainous Landscapes in Balkan Prehistory. Prähistorische Archäologie in Südosteuropa: Propylaeum 2025.
• M. Gori & A. Abar, 2022. Confronting Anthropological and Natural Scientific Approaches to Migration in Archaeology, in M. Fernández-Götz, C. Nimura, P. Stockhammer & R. Cartwright (eds.): Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia. Proceedings of the British Academy. Oxford University Press, Oxford
• M. Gori, A. Di Renzoni & E. Carletti 2021. Connecting the Dots in the Adriatic-Ionian Area. Long-Distance Networks in the 3rd Millennium BC. Origini XLV-2021: 147-170.
• A. Bulatović, M.Gori & M. Vander Linden. Radiocarbon Dating the 3rd Millennium BC in the Central Balkans: a re-examination of the Early Bronze Age sequence, Radiocarbon 62.5, 2020: 1163–1191
• M. Gori, Kατὰ γῆν καὶ κατὰ θάλασσαν. Cetina communities on the move across the Central Mediterranean and the Balkans in the 3rd millennium BC. In: J. Maran, R. Băjenaru, S.C. Alincăi, A.D. Popescu, S. Hansen (eds.), Objects, Ideas and Travelers. Contacts between the Balkans, the Aegean and Western Anatolia during the Bronze and Early Iron Age, Proc. Conf. to the memory of A. Vulpe, Bonn: Habelt, 2020, pp. 65–83
• M. Gori & M. Ivanova (eds.). Balkan Dialogues. Negotiating Identity Between Prehistory and the Present, London & New York: Routledge, 2017.
• M. Gori. Along the Rivers and Through the Mountains. A reviewed chrono-cultural framework for the south-western Balkans during the late 3rd and early 2nd millennium BCE, UPA, Bonn: Habelt, 2015.