Ayça Deniz Çınar

Ayça is currently conducting her research at the ANAMED (Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) Fellowship while pursuing her PhD in Archaeology at Çanakkale On sekiz Mart University. She also obtained her master’s degree from the same university’s Department of Archaeology and completed her undergraduate studies at Hatay Mustafa Kemal University in the same field. During her doctoral studies, she was a researcher at the University of Tübingen through the TÜBİTAK “2214/A International Research Fellowship Programme for Ph.D. Students” and then at the Institute of Archaeology in Belgrade as a Machteld J. Mellink scholarship.
Her fieldwork experience includes participation in the Tell Atchana excavations since 2012 and her role as a field team member at the Toprakhisar Höyük excavations since 2016. Her research interests include ground stone industry, space syntax analysis, and ethnoarchaeology. Her PhD dissertation aims to explain the importance of stone production technology, defining the center-periphery relationship by studying the Early Bronze Age IV and Middle Bronze II periods finds in the Tell Atchana and Toprakhisar settlements.