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Latest publications 

​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​

 

Schachner, A., Alparslan, M., Baskın, S., Becker, J., Bolatti Guzzo, N., Gruber, M., Kibaroğlu, M., Krüger, D., Marazzi, M., Mielke, D., Morra, V., Repola, L. and Schwemer, D., 2024. Die Ausgrabungen in Boğazköy-Ḫattuša 2023. Archäologischer Anzeiger 1,:1–238. doi:10.34780/fa2t-66da.

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Kibaroğlu, M., Kozal, E., Mielke, P. D., 2024. Geschichte schreiben mit Chemie und Mineralogie – Archäometrische Forschungen zur hethitischen Keramik. Antike Welt, 3(24), 22-27.

 

Kibaroğlu, M., Schuhmacher, T. X., Mederos, A., Falkenstein, F., Manuel Vargas, J., Mertz-Kraus, R., Hacıosmanoğlu, S., 2024. Investigating the Late Chalcolithic pottery production and consumption at Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, SW-Spain): An archaeometric analysis using petrographic and LA-ICP-MS techniques. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 53, 104299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104299

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Current researches

 
Hittite Pottery, Central Anatolia (HIPAP)

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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...

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In Search of the "City of the Storm God": Tarhuntassa, the Lost Capital of the Hittite Empire
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​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)

 
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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)

 
 
 
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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.

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Archaeometric analysis of Bell Beaker and Chalcolithic pottery from Mega-site Valencina de la Concepción, Sevilla. >> MORE

Southeastern Anatolia: Late Chalcolithic and Niniveh V Pottery

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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

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