Bülent Arıkan, PhD
Professor of Archaeology
I am an anthropological archaeologist of the Near East. My research interest covers past climate changes, land use patterns, and social complexity from the Neolithic to the end of the Iron Age (10.000 - 600 BC).
Research Interests
I mainly explore how past societies took divergent paths to social complexity and how settlement systems might reflect these paths. My research also aims to understand past ways of adaptation and mitigation in the face of persistent climate changes.
I employ geoarchaeology, remote sensing, paleoclimate modeling, and agent-based modeling of past land use and landscape evolution.
Recent
Publications
Arıkan, B. and Dardeniz, G. “The comparison of land cover change and erosion-deposition patterns during the Early Bronze Age-I (ca. 5100-4700 cal. BP) in Eastern and Southwestern Anatolia.” Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 54 (104435) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104435