Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology

2014 Edition
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Balkan-Atlı, Nur

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2372
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Basic Biographical Information

Nur Balkan-Atlı was born in 1953 in Aydın, Turkey After graduating from Robert College, she went to Paris and studied prehistory, anthropology, and ethnology at Sorbonne University. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. with a dissertation titled The Neolithization of Anatolia from the Sorbonne University in 1985. Atlı was assigned as a specialist to the Prehistory Department of İstanbul University in 1987 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1995 and then Professor in 2000.

Major Accomplishments

Nur Balkan Atlı’s major field of study is the Paleolithic period of prehistoric archaeology and lithic technologies. Since 1995, she has mostly focused on the obsidian beds and working areas in the Cappadocia region in Turkey. After working in El Kown, Qdeir (Suriye), Cafer Höyük (Malatya), and Aşıklı Höyük (Aksaray) on excavations, she started an ongoing study through the Cappadocia Obsidian Research Project. She is connected to the French Institute of Anatolian...

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Further Reading

  1. Balkan-Atlı, N. 1993. Els primers poblats neolithics d’Anatòlia. Cota Zero 9: 25-30.Google Scholar
  2. - 1994. La Néolithisation de l’Anatolie. Istanbul: IFEA; Paris: Editions Broccard.Google Scholar
  3. - 1995. Preliminary report of the chipped stone industry of Değirmentepe, an Ubaid settlement in eastern Anatolia, in Readings in prehistory: studies presented to Halet Çambel: 127-48. İstanbul: EgeYayınları.Google Scholar
  4. - 1998. The aceramic Neolithic of central Anatolia: recent finds in the chipped stone industry, in G. Arsebük, M.J. Mellink & W. Schirmer (ed.) Light on top of the Black Hill (Studies presented to Halet Çambel): 81-94. İstanbul: EgeYayınları.Google Scholar
  5. - 2003. Use of obsidian at Değirmentepe: an Ubaid settlement in eastern Anatolia, in M. Özdoğan, H. Hauptmann & N. Başgelen (ed.) From villages to cities. Early villages in the Near East: 373-84. İstanbul: Arkeolojive Sanat Yayınları.Google Scholar
  6. - 2004. A short report on flint and obsidian finds, in H. Abbasoğlu & W. Martini (ed.) Die Akropolis von Perge, Band 1: 79-81. Mainz: Zabern.Google Scholar
  7. - 2005. Paleolitikten Günümüze Obsidiyen. Haberler 19: 1-3.Google Scholar
  8. -2008. Obsidiyenin Geçmişten Günümüze Yolcuğu, in S. Delemen, A. Çokay-Kepçe, Ö. Özdizbay & S. Turak (ed.) Euergetes, Prof. Dr. Haluk Abbasoğlu 65. Yaş. Armağanı: 127-32. Suna-İnan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Enstitüsü.Google Scholar
  9. Balkan-Atlı, N. & D. Binder. 2007. Kaletepe – ein neolithischer Obsidianwerkplatz, in Die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit: 213. Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum.Google Scholar
  10. Balkan-Atlı, N. & M.C. Cauvin. 2007. Das schwarze Gold der Steinzeit, in Die ältesten Monumente der Menschheit: 207-13. Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum.Google Scholar
  11. Cauvin, M.C. & N. Balkan. 1985. CaferHöyük: Analyse de l’outillage lithique. Cahiers de l’Euphrate 4: 53-85.Google Scholar

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.IstanbulTurkey