Graduate Program in Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology

John Chapman is an Emeritus Professor of European Prehistory at Durham University, UK. He has conducted fieldwork in Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary and, most recently, in Ukraine, in the Trypillia mega-sites project. He has written extensively on the Balkan Mesolithic, Neolithic and Chalcolithic on themes such as social practices, settlement patterns, the mortuary zone, material culture and symbolic practices. He has worked with Bisserka Gaydarska on fragmentation in archaeology. He has taught at NBU in 2001 (a semester course on 'Archaeology into the 21st century) and is an Honorary Member of the Bulgarian National Institute of Archaeology.