Mustafa Kibaroğlu
Archaeometry · Ceramic research

Measuring the
human past.

Archaeological materials are rich archives of the human past. Scientific analysis makes them accessible, turning their contents into knowledge about ancient societies.

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Ceramic petrographyGeochemistryProvenance

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  1. Submitted
    Under review
    Cypriot connections, local ceramic tradition: A multi-analytical study of Iron Age “Cypro-Cilician” White Painted Ware at Sirkeli Höyük (Cilicia, Türkiye).

    Hacıosmanoğlu, S., Kibaroğlu, M., Mönninghoff, H., Unal-Ercan, H., Opitz, J., & Greiff, S.

    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

  2. Submitted
    Under review
    Archaeometric Investigations of Early, Middle, and Late Bronze Age Pottery from Dağdeviren Mound (Akhisar, Manisa, Western Anatolia).

    Akıllı, N., Semiz, B. and Kibaroğlu, M.

    Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports

  3. 2027Regionalism in an age of globalisation: Southern Anatolia–Cyprus interactions
  4. 2026Provenance and exchange networks of Mycenaean pottery from Tell Atchana / Alalakh
  5. 2026Archaeometric investigation of Hellenistic Colchian amphoras from Pichvnari
  6. 2025Late Bronze Age painted decorated ware in Western Anatolia: an archaeometric approach from Aşağıseyit Höyük
  7. 2025Petrographic analysis of ceramics from Alacalıgöl
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Questions grounded in materials.

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From field to laboratory

Connecting observations
with archaeological questions.

Petrography, geochemistry and reference clay sampling bring complementary evidence to the study of past production and exchange.

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Published chemical and isotope data, clay sampling locations and supporting materials.

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