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BIOGRAPHY

My research focuses on human mobility, social transformations, and cultural integration in the Bronze Age of Anatolia (Turkey). I have utilised Sr isotope analysis to identify immigration and community integration patterns at the 2^nd millennium BC cosmopolitan trade center of Kültepe-Kanesh in central Turkey and I am working on other sample sets from contemporary sites to expand on this dataset.

Since 2016, I have been coordinating the Archaeological Isotopes Working Group workshops at ASOR Annual Meetings, out of which a new project recently emerged: BioIsoANE – A Repository of Bioarchaeological Isotopic Analysis in the Greater Ancient Near East is an open-access, integrated database of all published isotopic analyses of bioarchaeological materials from the Balkans to the Caucasus in the north to the Sudan and Oman in the south.

I am the Associate Director of Kerkenes Excavations Project at the Iron Age mountaintop city of Pteria on Kerkenes Dag in central Turkey and I work as an editor and translator of bilingual (Turkish/English) academic publications on the archaeology and ancient history of Turkey.

For more information on my research please visit my current research page. 

Collaborations

2020 – BioIsoANE – A Repository of Bioarchaeological Isotopic Analysis in the Greater Ancient Near East [An open-access, integrated database of isotopic analysis of bioarchaeological materials from the Balkans to the Caucasus; Co-founder: Dr. Benjamin Irvine, Koç University; Advisory Board: Dr. Michael Richards and Dr. Lynn Welton; funded by BIAA – British Institute at Ankara]

2018 – Bioarchaeological Investigations at Kaman-Kalehöyük, Turkey [Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology Excavations; Director: Dr. Sachihiro Omura; Research collaboration with Dr. Kimiyoshi Matsumura, Dr. Cheryl Anderson, Dr. Michael Richards, and Dr. Suzanne Pilaar-Birch]

2016 – Archaeological Isotopes Working Group at ASOR, Co-founder and Coordinator

2021 – SARAT – Safeguarding and Rescuing Archaeological Assets of Turkey, Project assistant [Project Director: Dr. Gül Pulhan, Koç University and BIAA – British Institute at Ankara]

2019 – Kerkenes Excavations Project, Associate Director and Field supervisor [Excavation Director: Scott Branting, Central Florida University]

2018 – Yapı Kredi Nedim Tör Museum, Translator of exhibit panels, catalogues, and publications [Museum Director: Nihat Tekdemir]

2016 – Anatolian Civilizations Series, Translator [Edited monographs published bilingually by Yapı Kredi Culture, Art and Publishing, Istanbul; Project coordinator: Nihat Tekdemir]

Publications

Co-Edited Book

2012      Charles Hartley, G. Bike YazıcıoÄŸlu, Adam T. Smith (editors). Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia: Regimes and Revolutions. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Book Chapters

2017      Locals, immigrants, and marriage ties at Kültepe: results of strontium isotope analysis on human teeth from lower town graves. In Fikri KulakoÄŸlu, Gojko Barjamovic (eds), Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference held at Kültepe: Movement, Resources, Interaction, 63-84. SUBARTU 39, Turnhout, Brepols.

2014       Handan ÃœstündaÄŸ, G. Bike YazıcıoÄŸlu. A history of bioarchaeological research in Turkey. In Maria C. Lozada, Barra O’Donnabhain (eds), Archaeological Human Remains: Global Perspectives, 199-212. New York, Springer.

2010      K. Aslıhan Yener, G. Bike YazıcıoÄŸlu. Excavation results. In K. Aslıhan Yener (ed.), Tell Atchana, Ancient Alalakh Volume 1: The 2003–2004 Excavation Seasons, 11-49. Istanbul, Ege Yayınları & Koç University Press.

2007       Archaeological politics of Anatolia: imaginative identity of an imaginative geography. In Laura Popova, Charles Hartley, Adam T. Smith (eds), Social Orders and Social Landscapes, 218-250. Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Press.

Peer-Reviewed Article

2020       P. Ertepinar, M.L. Hammond, M.J. Hill, A.J. Biggin, C.G. Langereis, A.I.R. Herries, K.A. Yener, M. Akar, M.H. Gates, T. Harrison, A.M. Greaves, D. Frankel, J.M. Webb, Ä°. Özgen, G.B. Yazicioglu. Extreme geomagnetic field variability indicated by Eastern Mediterranean full-vector archaeomagnetic records. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 531: 115979.