PUBLICATIONS and OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Kolbüken, M. and Arıkan, B. November 21, 2023 “The Paleoclimate Conditions of the Gediz Graben (Western Türkiye) and the Changes in Archaeological Settlement Patterns During the Holocene” Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Natural and Engineering Sciences, Anatolia Academy of Sciences, Turkey.

Arıkan, B. October 18, 2023 “Hacımusalar Höyük 2022 Yılı Çalışmaları” (2022 Season at Hacımusalar Mound) Paper presented at the 43rd Annual Symposium of Archaeology and Archaeometry, The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ankara, Turkey.

Arıkan, B. September 15, 2022 “Agent-based Modeling in Anatolia: Simulating the Complex Adaptive Systems in Archaeology Through Changes in İand Use and Landscape Changes” In the Society for Near Eastern landscape Archaeology (SNELA) Session organized by Bülent Arıkan, Linda Olsvig Whittaker and Mike Freikman at 7th International Landscape Archaeology Conference at Iaşi, Romania.

Arıkan, B. May 24, 2022 “Erken Tunç Çağı-I (MÖ 2900-2700) Evresinde Yenibademli Höyük’de (Gökçeada) Paleoçevresel Değişimlerin ve Toprak Kullanımının  Etmen-temelli Modelleme Sonuçları” (The Results of the Agent-based Modeling during the Early Bronze Age-I (2900-2700 BC) Paleoenvironmental Changes and Land Use ay Yenibademli Höyük, Gökçeada) Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Symposium of Archaeology and Archaeometry, The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Denizli, Turkey.

Arıkan, B. March 3, 2022 “The agent-based modelling of land-use in the Middle Holocene” Paper presented at the Society for the Near East Landscape Archaeology (SNELA) 3rd Bi-annual meeting (organized by Gonca Dardeniz Arıkan), Istanbul, Turkey.

Arıkan, B. September 9, 2021 “Modeling the Landscape Evolution and Land-use in Early Bronze Age at Hacılar, in SW Anatolia” A Network for Agent-based Modeling of Socio-ecological Systems in Archaeology (NASA) (organized by P. Verhagen, D. Daems, I. Romanowska). Paper presented at 27th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Kiel, Germany.

Arıkan, B. June 9, 2021 “Agent-based Land-use Modeling of Early Bronze Age Agropastoralism and Its Environmental Impacts in Different Regions of Anatolia” Landscape Archaeology in the Near East Session (organized by Michael Freikman and Linda Olsvig-Whittaker). Paper presented at 6th Landscape Archaeology Conference, Madrid, Spain.

Arıkan, B. April 29, 2021 “An Assessment of Long-Term Climate Dynamics across Anatolia Based on the Results of Macrophysical Climate Modeling.” Insights Over the Long-term: Continuity and Change session. Paper presented at 15th International Anamed Symposium. Winds of Change (organized by Chris H. Roosevelt and John Haldon). Environment and Society in Anatolia. Istanbul, Turkey.

Arıkan, B. March 13, 2021 “Holosen İklim Modellemesi” (Holocene Climate Modeling). İklim ve Doğal Çevre (Climate and Natural Environment session). Paper presented at APAD 2021. Tarihöncesinde Yerleşiklik (APAD2021. Sedentism in Prehistory, organized by C.M. Erek, M. Kartal, N. Karul, E. Özdoğan, H. Tekin, A. Başıran). Ankara, Turkey.

Arıkan, B. April 12, 2019 “Agro-pastoral Adaptations to Holocene Climatic Change in the Greater Near East” Lightning Round Session (co-organized with Isaac T. Ullah). Paper presented at 84th Annual Meeeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque –NM, U.S.A.

Arıkan, B. May 8, 2018  “Erken ve Orta Holosen Dönemlerinde (kal. G.Ö. 12.000-2600) İç ve Güneybatı Anadolu’daki İklim Değişiklikleri ve Bunların Arkeolojik Yerleşme Sistemlerine Etkisi.” (The Early and Middler Holocene (12,000-2600 cal. BP) Climatic Changes in Central and Southwestern Anatolia and Their Impacts on Archaeological Settlement Systems) Paper presented at the 40th Annual Symposium of Archaeology and Archaeometry, The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Çanakkale, Turkey.

Arıkan, B. April 12, 2018 “Modeling the Changes in the Surface Processes at Arslantepe (Malatya) During the Early Bronze Age-I (ca. 4950-4700 cal. BP): A Coupled Systems Approach in Agent-based Modeling.” Paper presented in The 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington DC – U.S.A.

Arıkan, B. November 2, 2017 “Modeling the Changes in the Surface Processes at Arslantepe (Malatya) During the Early Bronze Age-I (ca. 5000-4750 cal. BP)” Paper presented at 2017 International Symposium on Geoarchaeology, Ancient Mining, and Metallurgy, (organized by Hüseyin Öztürk, Ünsal Yalçın, Cahit Dönmez, and William E. Brooks), Istanbul University Department of Geology, Istanbul.

Arıkan, B. November 2, 2017 “Delice Valley (Çorum) Archaeological and Geoarchaeological Survey” Paper presented at 2017 International Symposium on Geoarchaeology, Ancient Mining, and Metallurgy, (organized by Hüseyin Öztürk, Ünsal Yalçın, Cahit Dönmez, and William E. Brooks), Istanbul University Department of Geology, Istanbul.

Arıkan, B. May 23, 2017 “2016 Yılı Delice Vadisi (Çorum) Jeoloji, Arkeoloji ve Tarih Öncesi Madencilik Yüzey Araştırması” (Delice Valley - Çorum Survey for Geology, Archaeology, and Prehistoric Mining in 2016) Paper presented at the 39th Annual Symposium of Archaeology and Archaeometry, The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Bursa, Turkey.

Arıkan, B. May 13, 2017 “The Paleoenvironment and the Settlement Systems of Delice Valley: The Heartland of Hatti” Presented at the Fellows’ Research Seminar on Space Transformations: Multi-Scalar Approaches to the Past at Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Istanbul.

Arıkan, B. May 24, 2016 “İlk Tunç Çağı-I Evresinde (MÖ 3000–2750) Arslantepe Höyüğü: Sosyo-ekolojik Etmen-temelli Modelleme Uygulamaları, Toprak Kullanımı ve Çevresel Değişimlere İlişkin İlk Sonuçlar.” (Agent-based Modeling of Socio-ecological Dynamics at Arslantepe During the Early Bronze-I period, 3000-2750 BC) Paper presented at the 38th Annual Symposium of Archaeology and Archaeometry, The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Edirne, Turkey.

Arıkan, B. May 11, 2016 “Simulating the Socioecological Dynamics at Arslantepe during the Early Bronze Age-I Phase (ca. 4950 – 4700 cal. BP): A Coupled Systems Approach in Agent-based Modeling” Paper Presented in the Archaeology-Paleoanthropology Session at The 7th Quaternary Symposium of Turkey, Istanbul-Turkey.

Arıkan, B. April 7, 2016 “Macrophysical Climate Model and Comparisons with the Proxy-Based Paleoclimate Reconstruction in Central Anatolian Plain between 14000 and 7000 cal. BP.” Paper presented in the ‘Calibrating Palaeoclimatology-informed Research in Old World Archaeology: Data, Methods and Theories (organized by Peter Biehl) at The 81st  Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando– FL, U.S.A.

Arıkan, B. October 29, 2015 “Crisis in the Highlands: Agent-based Modeling of the Early Bronze Age-I (ca. 5,000–4,750 cal. BP) Socioeconomic Transformations at Arslantepe (Eastern Anatolia).” Paper presented at the International Workshop: Crisis to Collapse. The Archaeology of Societal Breakdown (organized by Jan Driessen and Tim F. Cunningham), The Catholic University of Leuven Institute of Civilizations, Arts and Letters, The Center for the Study of the Ancient World, Louvain-la-Neuve–Belgium.

Arıkan, B. September 5, 2015 “Climate, Environment and Society in the Ancient Near East - New Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction and Climate Model Simulations.” Climate and Society in the Near East (organized by Pascal Flohr and Dominik Fleitmann) The 21st Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, University of Glasgow, Glasgow–Scotland

Arıkan, B. June 25, 2015 “Archaeological Perspectives for Climate Change and Human Impacts on Environment.” Paper presented at the Workshop on Data-driven Research in the History of Southeast Europe and Turkey (organized by Dr. Dino Mujadžević), The Centre for Mediterranean Studies at Ruhr University, Bochum–Germany.

Arıkan, B. June 12, 2015 “The Mid- and Late Holocene Climate Changes in the Amuq Plain: The Application of the Macrophysical Climate Model.” Paper presented at the Workshop for the 15th Anniversary of the Alalakh Excavations (organized by Aslıhan Yener and Gonca Dardeniz) Hatay Archaeology Museum, Hatay–Turkey.

Arıkan, B. May 11, 2015 “Holosen Süresince Anadolu’da Makrofiziksel İklim, Stokastik Toprak Kullanım Modellemelerine Örnekler ve Arkeolojik Yerleşme Örgüsüne Yeni Bir Bakış.” (Case Studies for Macrophysical Climate Modeling, Stochastic Land Use Models in Anatolia Throughout the Holocene and A New Look at the Settlement Patterns) Paper presented at the 37th Annual Symposium of Archaeology and Archaeometry, The Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Erzurum, Turkey.

Arıkan, B. March 25, 2015 “Connecting the Regions and Cultures Through Crises: The Inter-regional Comparisons of Climate Change and Human Adaptive Responses to Environmental Stress around the Mediterranean.” Keynote address for the session titled Abrupt Environmental and Cultural Changes in Southwest Europe around 4.2 ka BP (organized by Prof. Mara Weinelt and Dr. Christian Schwab), at the International Workshop on Socio-environmental Dynamics over the Last 12,000 Years: The Creation of Landscapes IV, at the University of Kiel, Kiel­–Germany. 

Arıkan, B. October 14, 2014 “The Bronze Age Paleoenvironments in the Northern Mesopotamia and the Southern Levant: Comparative Modeling and Human Impacts.” Paper presented in the session titled The Levantine Paleoenvironments, Paleoclimates, and Ancient Human Populations (organized by Claire Rambeau, University of Bern, Switzerland), at The 8th International Symposium on Eastern Mediterranean Geology, Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Muğla–Turkey.

Arıkan, B. September 11, 2014 “The Application of Macrophysical Climate Model in the Malatya Plain (4000-1200 BC).” Paper presented in the session titled Environmental Change: Data, Process, and Integrated Modeling (co-organized with Peter Biehl, SUNY-Buffalo Department of Anthropology), at The 20th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul–Turkey.

Arıkan, B. April 23, 2014 “The Application of the Macrophysical Climate Model, Stochastic Modeling of Landscape Evolution and Land Use in the Early Bronze Age at Arslantepe (Malatya–Eastern Anatolia).” Poster presented at The International Workshop on the Mediterranean Holocene Climate and Human Societies, Navarino Environmental Observatory, Messinia–Greece.

Arıkan, B. May 11, 2012 “Remaining Afloat in Times of Crisis: Similarities and Disparities Between the Northern Mesopotamian and the Southern Levantine Tribal Societies’ Adaptations to Changing Climate in the Context of Fluid Social Organization.” Paper presented at the symposium titled Geographical Boundaries and Cultural Frontiers: Fixed or Fluid Social Identities, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul­–Turkey.

Arıkan, B. April 25, 2009 “A New Approach In Site Mapping: GRASS GIS and Vector Re–

Positioning.” Paper presented at The 74th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta– GA, U.S.A.