Maja Kokanović

Position:Junior Research Assistant

Academic Rank: Junior Research Assistant in the field of social humanities - archaeology

Maja Kokanović is a Junior Research Assistant at the BioSense Institute (Project title: MOVE – Moving across the plain: reconstructing the lifetime movements of farming pioneers and their successors during the Neolithic in the Southern Carpathian Basin; funded by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia – Program PRISMA). She obtained her BA (2018) and MA (2022) degrees from the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, in the field of Zooarchaeology. Currently attending the second year of her doctoral studies at the same university. The area of her research is the study of the archaeozoological aspects of the dietary patterns of the population during the prehistoric and historical periods.

Center:

CBS

Themes:

1. Archeozoology

Projects:

1. MOVE – Moving across the plain: reconstructing the lifetime movements of farming pioneers and their successors during the Neolithic in the Southern Carpathian Basin

Publications:

Kokanović M. 2023. Archaeozoological aspects of the diet of the inhabitants of the Old Synagogue site during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age, Serbian Archaeological Society, Autumn Meeting of the Medieval Section, Kotor, 1-3.12. 2023, (book of abstracts pp. 39-40)
Kokanović M. 2023. Identifying cultural and dietary changes through archaeozoology: a case study from the early modern stratum in the area of the El Kal Viejo (Old) Synagogue in Belgrade Postgraduate zooarchaeology forum Zagreb 2023, (book of abstracts pp. 23)
Radovanović N., Kokanović M., Živanović M., Bulatović J. 2022. Medun-archaeozoological report, New antique Doclea XIII/2022, Podgorica 2022; 177-199