It is often thought, that air pollution is a product of modern “civilization”. The contrary is true. In particular indoor air pollution by hearth fires are going back into the first habitations in Paleolithic caves. The problem was rising through prehistory, as can be indirectly seen by the rising CO2 content of the atmosphere, preserved […]

I am a PhD student working at the German Mining Museum in Bochum. I completed my studies at the Ruhr University Bochum and graduated with a Master’s degree in Pre- and Protohistory and Archaeology of Economics and Raw Materials. During my studies, I had the opportunity to study at Hacettepe University in Ankara as part […]

I started my undergraduate education in 2010 at the Department of Geography at Isparta Süleyman Demirel University. In my master’s thesis, which I completed in the same department between 2014 and 2017, I conducted research at Mucur Obruk Lake in Central Anatolia (Kırşehir-Mucur). The aim of my thesis was to explain the paleo-vegetation changes of […]

I am a geographer from Berlin. From 2014 to 2020 I studied at the Institute of Geographical Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin. I completed the bachelor’s program in Geographical Sciences in 2018 and the consecutive master’s program in Geographical Environmental Research in 2020. During my studies, I specialized in physical geography, emphasizing geomorphological analysis and […]

Francesco G. Barsacchi is a Hittitologist, currently assistant professor at the University of Turin (within the project: ITSERR – Italian Strengthening of the European Research Infrastructure RESILIENCE). His research interests focus on Hittite language and culture, with a special attention dedicated to the religious sphere. From this point of view, he has investigated several aspects […]

Lyrbe (?) is a Greco-Roman site in Eastern Pamphylia (near modern Bucakşeyhler Village in Manavgat, Antalya). Following the excavations in the 1970s conducted by J. Inan, a new survey project has been initiated in 2021. Recent research indicates the importance of environmental factors for this small-scale city. It had a strategic position on a hilltop, […]

Since 2008 I was trained in Black Sea Archaeology in the Pompeiopolis Excavation Project, where I became director of the Pompeiopolis field school (2014–2016) and performed a predoctoral research project on Economics within the Roman cityscape. Spatial analyses in the Paphlagonian metropolis Pompeiopolis in the Turkish Black Sea Region. In 2018 I was awarded the […]

Pisidia Region comprise a diverse set of landscape zones that are characterized by great altitude variations. Various studies have been carried out over many years in order to understand the human-environment interactions in and around this region.  It is not possible to fully grasp the lives of communities without delineating the relations with their environment, […]

Paolo Maranzana is an Italian archaeologist who studied in Italy (BA University of Pavia), UK (MA King’s College London), and the US (PhD University of Michigan). He is currently an assistant professor in Roman Archaeology in the History Department at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. His work focuses on the impact of the establishment, development, and […]

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) at Koç University, Istanbul, researching the intersections between late antique religion and economy. After a BA in Anthropology and Classical Archaeology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (IL, USA) and a M.Sc. in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh (UK), […]