C. (Canan) Çakirlar, PhD
Associate Professor with ius promovendi
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I am interested ---in a nutshell--- in the interactions between socio-economic structures and earth's biodiversity. Animal domestication, origins of animals as labor (e.g. oxen), origins of systematic breeding practices, development of over-exploitation and intensification of harvesting, landscape and population management through hunting, meat and dairy consumption, ritualization of over-eating, animals as diplomatic gifts, translocations of wild life, over-exploitation for luxury good manufacture, animal (ab-)use for power displays, man-man negotations are some of the phenomena I am particularly interested in, and I probably forgot to mention a few really interesting others here. I usually use the following methods to investigate the genesis or recurrent phenomena related to these interactions: Zooarchaeology, archaeomalacology, stable isotope analysis of biogenic carbonates and collagen (oxygen, nitrogen, carbon systems); incremental growth analysis, osteomorphology, taphonomy, ZooMS, aDNA. My work is inspired by previous and current studies in: Archaeology, bioarchaeology, environmental heritage, marine historical ecology, anthropology, ecology, Near Eastern archaeology, history of Early Empires from Mediterranean to present day, political economy, political ecology. I work on the following periods: Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Hellenistic, Roman, Crusader and early Turkish periods, Byzantine period, and Colonial/Early Modern Era (Svalabard and Sri Lanka). I have worked on zooarchaeological assemblages from: Kinet Höyük, Tell Atchana/Alalakh, Kilisetepe, Patara, Clazomenae, Gordion, Troy, Aşağı Seyit, Ulucak, Karaburun, Yeni Bademli Höyük, Kaymakçı, Fikirtepe and Yenikapı in Turkey; Dzlunitsa in Bulgaria; Swifterbant sites in the Netherlands; Bronze Age sites around Francavilla in Italy; Halos and the Athenian Agora in Greece; Tell Fadous, Tell el-Burak and Berytus in Lebanon; Tell Leilan and Dur Katlimmu in Syria; and Nineveh in Iraq.
Other positions
Director of Studies, Research MA (2-year) Archaeology
Head of Zooarchaeology, Groningen Institute of Archaeology
Head of Zooarchaeology, Groningen Institute of Archaeology
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