Zooarchäologie

Şengül Fındıklar

Address:

Hölderlinstraße 12

D-72074 Tübingen

Office: Raum S561

Email: senguel.findiklarspam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Current Position

Since 10/2021: Ph.D. Student in Institute for Natural Scientific Archaeology, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen

Working in the SFB 1070 A05 Project titled “Land Flowing Milk and Honey” Development and Significance of Agrarian Resources in Bronze and Iron Age Palestine

Main Interests:

  • Zooarchaeology

  • Animal domestication

  • Bronze Ages

  • Southern Levant

  • Anatolia

  • Ichthyofauna

  • Animal symbology

Education

Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany
Ph.D., Zooarchaeology. Advisor: Priv.-Doz. Dr. Britt STARKOVICH (2021-present)

Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
M.A. Archaeology, specialization in Zooarchaeology. Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Christina LUKE (2019-2021).
Thesis title: Mighty Cattle: Zooarchaeological Analyses of Bos Husbandry Practices in Late Bronze Age Kaymakçı, Western Anatolia

Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
B.A. Archeology and History of Art (2015-2019).
B.A. Specialization Track in Design Studies

Experience

2018-present

Kaymakçı (Gygaia) Archaeological Projects, Manisa, Turkey

Zooarchaeology Lab. (Dr. Canan ÇAKIRLAR, Prof. Chris ROOSEVELT, Assoc. Prof. Christina LUKE)

Worked with faunal remains recovered from Kaymakçı excavation, labelled, catalogued, and organized faunal data recovered from the project site

2018-2019

Sagalassos Archaeological Projects, Burdur, Turkey

Excavation Team (Dr. Peter TALLOEN, Prof. Jeroen POBLOME)

Excavated “Rock Sanctuary” (RS) and “Southeast Street” (SES) areas

2017

VKV Sadberk Hanim Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Archaeology Section (Dr. Senem OZDEN GERCEKER, Hülya BILGI)

Acted as a data-logger, assisted the expert of the curation process of exhibitions, helped management of collections, engaged with children-learning center

2016-2019

Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

Assistant Student of College of Social Sciences and Humanities (Assoc. Prof. Rana ÖZBAL, and Assoc. Prof. Christina LUKE)

Assisted Prof. Özbal by her laboratory works, working with bones, soil chemicals, computer organizational works, and conducted ICP-MS/OES and P-XRF analyses.

Assisted Prof. Luke by her zooarchaeology research and laboratory works, bone analysis, database inputs and acted as the zooarchaeology representative of weekly meetings

Presentations and Workshops

2021

WANAT Symposium, Istanbul, Turkey

Western Anatolia in the 2nd Millennium B.C.E

Presented a paper titled “Animal Husbandry in Late Bronze Age Western Anatolia” with Dr. Canan ÇAKIRLAR and Drs. Francesca SLIM

2020

American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR), Virginia, USA

Virtual Annual Meeting 2020

Presented a paper titled “Fortification or Dumpster: A Collaborative Study on Animal Remains along the Fortification Walls of Kaymakçı” with Drs. Ebru KANER

2019

Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (RCAC/ANAMED), Istanbul, Turkey

Environmental Archaeology Workshop (Dr. Hannah LAU, Dr. Müge ERGUN, Prof. Chris ROOSEVELT)

Assisted workshops, helped trainees on hands-on practices, translated presentations

2019

Sheffield University Zooarchaeology Short Courses, Sheffield, U.K

Understanding Zooarchaeology II (Prof. Umberto ALBARELLA)

Focused in-dept methods and theory that can be applied in zooarchaeology studies including taxonomic, morphologic, and pathological analysis as well as database establishment methodologies