Assoc. Prof. Goce Naumov

Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Goce-Naumov

Research Interests:

Archaeology; Prehistory; Chronology; Corporeality; Embodiment

Biography

Goce Naumov is Associate Professor at Goce Delćev University and an Educator at the Museum of Macedonia. His research focuses mainly on the Neolithic of Pelagonia and Lake Ohrid. In addition, his interests cover diverse areas such as chronology, corporeality, burials, households, and visual identities in the prehistoric Balkans, particularly their involvement in symbolic and social processes.

Naumov has directed and contributed to numerous archaeological excavations at prehistoric sites in Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, Slovenia, Turkey, the USA, and Russia, and has organized exhibitions in Macedonia, the USA, Canada, Serbia, and Italy. He has collaborated on various international projects with the Field Museum in Chicago, the University of Basel, the Spanish National Science Council, the German Archaeological Institute, the University of Padova, the State University of New York, the Catalhoyuk Research Project, and the University of Bern, among others.

Naumov is the author of five monographs and 90 articles, and has served as editor of several books and exhibition catalogs. He is the founder and president of the Center for Prehistoric Research and is actively involved in the Macedonian Archaeological Association, the European Association of Archaeologists, and the Prehistoric Society. In addition to his academic interests, Naumov is a member of the jazz bands Sethstat and Next to Silence, recording and performing in Macedonia and throughout Europe.

Project Abstract

The project encompass the two unrelated notions of prehistoric time, one of the modern observers (scholars in humanities) and the other of the actual people living in prehistory (particularly the first farming societies). This will consider the theoretical explication of temporality and the employment of exact methods in the comprehension of time, as well as the data from archaeological sites and material culture that could reflect the perception of time among the agricultural communities in the Balkans. Consequently, the project deals with the cognition and phenomenology of time by the employment of various anthropological and sociological perspectives, but also includes the employment of Bayesian modeling and contextual analysis of buildings and material culture. They are observed in regard to explicit data from the Neolithic sites in Macedonia, but also in a relationship with the Balkan and European prehistory. This multitude of approaches in the understanding of temporality generate a novel panorama that could provide a more solid scientific platform for the elaboration of the (pre)historic time.