Faculty

I am a tenure track Assistant Professor at the Department of Archaeology at the New Bulgarian University (NBU) and Director of the Archaeometry and Experimental Lab of the NBU.

I have studied archaeology in Sofia (Bulgaria), Athens (Greece) and Heidelberg (Germany). Since 2006 I teach prehistoric archaeology at the NBU in Sofia. I find extremely interesting ‘applied’ archaeological theory and especially social thinking. Among my favored topics are archaeology of change, food and contact studies, archaeology of space, frontiers and borders. In archaeological fieldwork, I engage with architecture, ceramics and metal tools. Beyond Balkan prehistory and Aegean civilizations I have been teaching prehistory of Continental Europe and the Near East.   

My main fieldwork projects was a survey of the middle valley of Struma / Strymon river (co-directed with Ilia Kulov) in 2009 – 2012 and the excavations of the Late Bronze Age fortified settlement of Bresto  in southwestern Bulgaria (co-directed with Prof. Philipp Stockhammer, LMU Munich and Ilia Kulov from the Museum in Blagoevgrad) in 2012 - 2018.

I have given lectures at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bryn Mawr, Cornel, Michigan, Leuven and Vienna.

I try to combine my passion for archaeology with ski mountaineering,  inline skating and traveling with my wife and two kids.

email: bo.atana@nbu.bg