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Latest publications
Konakçı, E., Semiz, B., Kibaroğlu, M., Kılbaş, I., 2025. Late bronze age painted decorated ware in Western anatolia: an archaeometric approach from Aşağıseyit Höyük (Denizli, Türkiye). Archaeol Anthropol Sci 17, 243. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02354-9
Kibaroğlu, M., 2025. Petrographic analysis of ceramics from Alacalıgöl. In: S. W. E. Blum (ed.), Alacalıgöl. Archäologisch-chronologische Untersuchungen zur Besiedlung der Troas an der Schnittstelle zwischen mittlerem und spätem Chalkolithikum. Studia Troica – Monographien 13. Bonn: Verlag Dr. Rudolf Habelt, pp. 38–47.
Semiz, B., Kibaroğlu, M., Dedeoğlu, F., Temür, B., 2025. Neolithic pottery from Ekşi Höyük in the Upper Menderes Basin in western Anatolia: An archaeometric investigation of raw material sourcing and manufacturing processes. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 66, 105297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105297
Hein, I., Kibaroğlu, M., Schauer, M., Hein, A., Polymeris, G. S., Molera, J., Pradell, T., (Eds.). 2025. Ceramic Analysis: Laboratory Methods. Cambridge Elements in Current Archaeological Tools and Techniques. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hacıosmanoğlu, S., Kibaroğlu, M., Ercan, H. Ü., Opitz, J., 2025. Characterization of clay deposits in the Ceyhan Plain (Eastern Cilicia, Turkey): Integrated petrographic, mineralogical, geochemical, and geospatial analysis for provenance studies of ancient ceramics. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 65, 105240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105240
Kibaroğlu, M., Kozal, E., Crewe, L., Martin, M. A. S., Hein, I., Monien, P., Bergoffen, C. J., 2025. A comparative archaeometric study of Late Bronze Age Black Lustrous and Red Lustrous Wheel-made Wares from the Eastern Mediterranean. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 65, 105216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105216
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Kibaroğlu, M., Kozal, E., Monien, P., 2025. Long-distance trade relations in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age: An archaeometric study of Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware (RLW) using petrographic, elemental and Sr-Nd isotope analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 61, 104965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104965
Hittite Pottery, Central Anatolia (HIPAP)
The Hittite empire of the late Bronze Age was one of the major powers in the ancient Near East during the second millennium BC. Questions concerning the economy and economic organization of the Hittites are largely based on historical research. Archaeology has so far received very limited attention in exploring these questions. The focus of archaeological research was mainly on important raw materials such as metals; thus, research on Hittite ceramics is an exception. read more...
In Search of the "City of the Storm God": Tarhuntassa, the Lost Capital of the Hittite Empire
This current interdisciplinary project integrates archaeometry, historical geography, and linguistic analysis of clay sealings (bulla) to identify the location of Tarhuntassa, a lost Hittite capital in Central Anatolia. Key methods include geochemical analysis of clay objects (sealings and tablets) linked philologically to Tarhuntassa using portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF), alongside reference clay samples from the Konya region and Hattusa/Boğazköy. The study aims to reassess Hittite political geography and establish a methodological framework for locating ancient capitals based on archaeometric and textual evidence.
Duration: June 2024 – June 2025 | Funding: Richard C. MacDonald Iliad Endowment for Archaeological Research
Role: Archaeometrist | Collaborators: Michele Massa, Alvise Matessi (Bilkent University, Türkiye), Michaela Schauer (University of Vienna, Austria)
Neolithic Western Anatolia
Archaeometric Analysis of Neolithic Pottery from Eksi Höyük, Western Anatolia
This project, a pilot initiative, is dedicated to the archaeometric analysis of Neolithic painted ceramics unearthed at Eksi Höyük, located in Western Anatolia. The core objective of this project is to unravel the provenance and technological details of Neolithic pottery (read more)
Southeastern Anatolia: Late Chalcolithic and Niniveh V Pottery
Investigation of Cultural Change and Interaction in Upper Tigris Region at the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd Millennium BC in the light of data from Başur Höyük
Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware from Turkey and Cyprus
Red Lustrous Wheel-made Ware from Cilicia and the Amuq valley (South Anatolia): Archaeological and Archaeometrical Investigations of the Provenance of a characteristic Late Bronze Age Pottery. Read more.
