Graduate RESEARCHERS

abdullah bilen

Abdullah Bilen graduated from Ege University, Department of Archaeology. He has been involved in numerous archaeological projects in southeastern Türkiye since 2004 including Şanlıurfa, Kazane Hoyuk, University of Virginia; Diyarbakır Kavuşan Hoyuk and Şırnak Cultural Inventory TÜBİTAK Survey Project, Ege University; Batman, Yukarı Salat Cami Yanı Excavation, University of Tokyo; Batman, Gre Amer Excavation, Koç University; Nusaybin, Mor Yakup Church Excavation, Mardin Museum, and Siirt, Başur Hoyuk Excavation, Ege University. Abdullah completed his MA at Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne University (2015), specializing in the Archaeology of Historical Ages, with a French government scholarship. He has worked in Çınar Municipality, the Metropolitan Municipality of Diyarbakır, and the Mardin Museum on cultural heritage, tourism, local economy, and restoration project designs and management. He currently works as a project coordinator at Art Anywhere Association. He is in the process of defending his PhD at Ege University, in the Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology Department, with a thesis titled "The Middle Bronze Age of the Upper Tigris Valley: Regional Culture and Political Structure."

timur güzey

Timur Güzey (he/him) is an MA student specializing in archaeometallurgy. Graduated from Ankara University, Department of Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology, Timur continues his studies at Istanbul University. His research focuses on the use and spread of arsenical copper during 4000-2000 BCE in the southwest Asia. Timur uses complementary methods of archaeological science including mineralogical, chemical, and isotopic analyses. He was also part of a TUBITAK-MSRT co-funded project entitled “Emergence of Arsenic-Copper Metallurgy in South Eastern Iran and Eastern Anatolia: Interpreting Ancient Metal Technology and Metal Routes Through a Multi-Analytical Approach”.

elmas kuru

Elmas Kuru (she/her) is an MA student at Istanbul University, Department of Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology. Being a graduate of the same department, her MA studies cover figurines, idols, and symbolism in the 5th and 4th millennia BCE Anatolia. Elmas is also interested in archaeological photography.

merve beşel demir

Merve Beşel Demir (she/her) is an MA student at Istanbul University, Department of Protohistory and Near Eastern Archaeology. After graduating from the same department, Merve joined several other excavations and surveys. In her MA, she focuses on the Late Bronze Age I ceramics from Konya Karahöyük.

Zeynep tok

Zeynep Tok (she/her) completed her BA in sociology at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. Having a background in sociology, Zeynep joined the multidisciplinary Geoanthropology program at Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences. Her research interests include ceramic technologies and its relations with social and political structures in 4th-3rd millennia BCE Anatolia. Zeynep specializes also in thin-section petrography of ancient ceramics.

ayşenur pala

Ayşenur Pala (she/her) is an MA student at Akdeniz University, Department of Archaeology. Ayşenur has a strong interest in archaeobotany and plant-human relations in the southwest Asian Bronze Age. In her MA, she uses 3rd millennium BCE archaeobotanical remains from Tell Tayinat Excavations (Hatay). She also collaborates with Konya Karahöyük macro and micro botany teams for future studies.

MEGAN ELAINE BRODERS

Megan Elaine Broders (she/her) is studying geoanthropology at Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences. She did her undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering and Polymer and Color Chemistry at North Carolina State University. She is interested in material analysis of archaeological artifacts. Her master's research is an interdisciplinary analysis, including organic residue analysis and thin-section petrography of Late Bronze Age I ceramics from Konya Karahöyük.