07/2025 – 10/2025
Excavation Göbekli Tepe 2025

10/2024 – 12/2024
Internship at The German Archaeological Institute (DAI) – Istanbul Department, as part of the 
Göbekli Tepe project. 

09/2023 – 06/2025
Master in Near Eastern Archaeology. University of Copenhagen. Thesis title:  
How Many Were There? - Investigating Population Size at Neolithic Göbekli Tepe 

08/2019 – 06/2022
Bachelor in Archaeology and Ancient History, Assyriology. Uppsala University 

Landscape as a Palimpsest – Göbekli Tepe and the Rewriting of Landscapes, Settlements, and Memorial Practices in the Post-Neolithic

The Harran plain and its surrounding mountains represent a landscape with one of the longest sequences of continuous sedentary occupation, stretching back to Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe. Hitherto, research has focused on the earlier Pre-Pottery Neolithic landscape of Göbekli Tepe, neglecting later periods. The project investigates post-PPN palimpsests of human-landscape interaction within the landscape of Göbekli Tepe and its surrounding hinterland, examining how economic practices, social memory, and material traces shaped its longue durée. Through integrated analysis of surface survey data (quarries, tumuli, rock shelters), later activity on the mound (tumulus, cemetery, pottery, and metal objects), 3D-measuring, GIS-based spatial modelling (viewsheds, Euclidian distance), and comparing textual and archaeological evidence from the broader region of the Harran plain, the research seeks to reconstruct patterns of land-use and memory-making across time. This repositions Göbekli Tepe not as an isolated Neolithic phenomenon, but as a persistent focal point within a spatio-temporal cultural landscape.