Mehmet Özdoğan

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Mehmet Celal Özdoğan (born May 30, 1943 in Istanbul ) is a Turkish prehistorian .

Life

Mehmet Özdoğan attended primary school in Sultanahmet, from 1954 the English grammar school and from 1959 the Robert College . He studied at Istanbul University , where he received his doctorate in 1979. His academic teachers included Kurt Bittel , Robert John Braidwood, and Halet Çambel . From 1975 to 1982 Özdoğan was an assistant, 1982 to 1985 assistant docent and from 1985 docent at the University of Istanbul, where he also became a full professor in 1993. From 1999 to 2008, the year of his retirement , he was head of the Department of Prehistory .

In 1992 he became a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute , and in 1994 a permanent member of the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques . In 1996 he taught at Brown University in Providence . In 2001 he received the Prize of the Turkish Academy of Sciences , of which he was a member from 2002 until his resignation in 2011, and in 2008 the Vehbi Koç Prize and the Italian Cavaliere Medal. In 2005 Özdoğan was elected to the National Academy of Sciences . Since 2009 he has been a corresponding member of the American Institute of Archeology , since 2011 he has been a member of the Bilim Akademisi , since 2012 of the Academia Europaea .

His work focuses on the Neolithic , in particular the area around the Sea of ​​Marmara and in Thrace ( Hoca Çeşme , Kırklareli , Yarımburgaz), but he also carried out excavations in eastern Turkey, for example rescue excavations in 1983/84 because of the construction of the Arslantaş dam at Domuztepe in Karatepe-Arslantaş and from 1999 to 2004 in Mezraa-Teleilat .

Publications (selection)

  • Lower Euphrates Basin 1977 Survey , Middle East Technical University, Ankara 1977.
  • Pendik. A Neolithic Site of Fikirtepe Culture in the Marmara Region , in: Rolf Michael Boehmer, Harald Hauptmann (Hrsg.): Contributions to ancient history of Asia Minor. Festschrift for Kurt Bittel , Vol. 1, Zabern, Mainz 1983, pp. 401-411.
  • Anatolia from the Last Glacial Maximum to the Holocene Climatic Optimum: Cultural Transformations and the Impact of the Environmental Setting , in: Paléorient 23,2 (1997) 25-38.
  • Hoca Çeşme. An Early Neolithic Anatolian colony in the Balkans? , in: Man and the Animal World . Festschrift S. Bökonyi (= Archaeolingua 8). (1998) 435-451.
  • Northwestern Turkey: Neolithic cultures between the Balkans and Anatolia , in: Mehmet Özdoğan, N. Başgelen (Ed.): Neolithic in Turkey , Istanbul 1999, pp. 203-236.
  • The Palaeolithic of the Bosphorus Region NW Turkey , in: Journal of Field Archeology 28, 1-2 (2001) 69-92.
  • with Hermann Parzinger , Necmi Karul, Zeynep Eres: Aşağı Pınar I , Zabern, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-8053-3269-6 .
  • Hoca Çeşme , in: Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe (ed.): 12,000 years ago in Anatolia - The oldest monuments of mankind , Karlsruhe 2007, p. 152.
  • Türk arkeolojisinin sorunları ve koruma politikaları . Arkeoloji ve Sanat Yayınları, Istanbul 2001.
  • Elli soruda arkeoloji . 7 Renk Basım Yayın, Istanbul 2011.
  • with Oya Algana, M. Namık Yalçın, Yücel Yılmaz, Erol Sarı, Elmas Kırcı-Elmas, İsak Yılmaz, Özlem Bulkan, Demet Ongan, Cem Gazioğlu, Atike Nazik, Mehmet Ali Polat, Engin Meriç: Holocene of coastal change in the ancient harbor Yenikapı – İstanbul and its impact on cultural history . In: Quaternerly Research 76.1 (2011) 30-45.
  • Archaeological Evidence on the Westward Expansion of Farming Communities from Eastern Anatolia to the Aegean and the Balkans , in: Current Anthropology 52 (2011) 415-430.
  • with Hermann Parzinger (ed.): The early Bronze Age settlement of Kanlıgeçit near Kırklareli. Eastern Thrace during the 3rd millennium BC BC in the field of tension between Anatolian and Balkan cultural development , Zabern, Mainz 2012, ISBN 978-3-8053-4513-2 .
  • Neolithic Sites in the Marmara Region. Fikirtepe, Pendik, Yarımburgaz, Toptepe, Hoca Çeşme, and Aşağı Pınar , in: Nezih Bașgelen, Mehmet Özdoğan, Peter Kuniholm (eds.): The Neolithic in Turkey. New Excavation & New Research , Vol. 5: Northwestern Turkey and Istanbul , Istanbul 2013, pp. 167-269. ISBN 978-605-396-231-1
  • Neolithic assemblages and spatial boundaries as exemplified through the Neolithic of Northwestern Turkey , in: Maja Gori, Maria Ivanova (Ed.): Balkan Dialogues: Negotiating Identity Between Prehistory and the Present , Taylor & Francis, 2017, pp. 197-212.

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personal data
SURNAME Özdoğan, Mehmet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Özdoğan, Mehmet Celal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul