Christian   Jørgen Christian Meyer Professor Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion PO Box 7805 5020 Bergen Norway Tlf.: +47 55582310 E-mail: jorgen.meyer@ahkr.uib.no   Biography: Born. 1950. MA History and BA Classical Archaeology, University of Aarhus, Denmark 1977. Dr. phil. 1983. 1983-1984 reader and from 1985 professor in Ancient History, Department of History, University of Bergen. 1992-1995 head of department. 1999-2001 member of the steering committee of Ancient Studies, The Norwegian Research Council. 2001-2004 member of the research project, Trade, migration and cultural change in the Indian Ocean (The Norwegian Research Council). Responsible for the pre-Islamic period. Member of the editorial board of Journal of Indian Ocean Archaeology, New Delhi. Archaeological excavations in Toscana in Italy 1977, 1978 and 1980. Fieldwork in Turkish villages and Diyarbakir 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991 and 1996. Fieldwork in Oman 2001 and 2002. Fieldwork in Egypt between the Nile and the Red Sea 2003. Fieldwork in Syria north of Palmyra 2004- (Joint Syrian-Norwegian research). Head of the research project, Palmyrena. City, Hinterland and Caravanetrade between the Occident and the Orient (The Norwegian Research Council 2009-2012). Areas of teaching: - Greek and Roman history - Indian Ocean and the Middle East in Antiquity - The past in the present Research: - Early Rome and the Etruscans - Archaic Greek and Roman history - The past in the present. - Gender history - Economic history Current Research: - Global systems in the Bronze and Iron Age in the Mediterranean and Middle East - Indian Ocean in Antiquity. - Relations between the Occident and the Orient. - Palmyra and the surrounding territory. Selected publications: - Roman History in the Light of the Import of Attic Vases to Rome and Etruria in the 6th and 5th Centuries B.C. AnalDan IX. Odense University Press. 1980. - Pre-Republican Rome. An Analysis of the Cultural and Chronological Relations 1000-500 B.C. Analecta Romana Instituti Danici, supplementum XI. Roma. Odense University Press. 1983. - Den amerikanske og Den franske Revolution og antikmyten. Det athenske demokrati i samtidens og eftertidens syn II, (ed. R. Thomsen), pp. 77-101. Aarhus 1986. - Archaic Greece, a Case of Ancient Modernization. Studies in Ancient History and Numismatics. Homage volume to R. Thomsen, (eds. E. Christiansen/E. Halager). Aarhus University Press. 1988. - From a Turkish Village to Republican Rome. Ideology, Mentality and Control. Staat und Staatlichkeit in der frhhen r`mischen Republik, (ed. W. Eder). Franz Steiner Verlag Stutt-gart. 1990. - Urtid. I. Blom (ed.)I. Kvinder fra urtid til nutid. 1-107. Oslo og København 1992. - Høvdingedømme, bystat, Imperium. Antikkens historie. Oslo 1998. - Den græsk-romerske civilisation og Mellemøstens verden. Den Jyske Historiker, nr. 86/87, (57-79). Arhus 1999. - Socialantropologi og komparativ metode. In Jon W. Iddeng (red.) Ad Fontes. Antikkvitenskap, kildebehandling og metode, (229-253). Oslo 2002. - Omens, Prophecies, and Oracles in Ancient Decisionmaking. In K. Ascani, V. Gabrielsen, K. Kvist, A.H. Rasmussen (eds), Ancient History Matters (Studies Presented to Jens Erik Skydsgaard on His Seventieth Birthday), (173-184). Roma 2002. - Assyrisk militarisme og terror. I J.W. Ideng (Red.) Antikke samfunn i krig og fred. (Festskrift til Johan Henrik Schreiner). (19-29). Oslo 2003. - Women in Classical Athens - In the shadow of North-West Europe or in the Light from Istanbul. In Ingvar B. Mæhle and Inger Marie Okkenhaug (eds.) Women and Religion in the Middle East and the Mediterranean pp. 19-48. Oslo 2004. - Trade in Bronze Age and Iron Age Empires. In P. F. Bang, Mamoru Ikeguchi and Hartmut G. Ziche, (eds.) Ancient Economies, Modern Methodologies. Archaeology, comparative history, models and institutions. (89-106). Bari 2006. - What have the Romans ever done for us? How to Win Wars and also the Peace. (in Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen (ed.), Rome and the Black Sea Region. Domination, Romanisation, Resistance (Black Sea Studies, 8). (133-151) Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2006. - Roman Coins as a Source for Roman Trading Activities in the Indian Ocean. In E.H. Seland, E.H. (ed.) Definite places, translocal exchange, BAR International Series. Archaeopress. (59-69). Oxford. 2007. - Hellas og Midtøstens verden i bronze- og jernalder. Et satellit-perspektiv. I J. W. Iddeng (red.) Fra Palass til Polis. Den greske verden mellom bronzealdersivilisasjoner og bystatskultur. (55-78). Oslo 2008