Dr. B.s. Düring
Associate Professor
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Dr. Bleda S. Düring is Associate Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology. He is engaged in diverse research project across the region. First, he is directing a large ERC Starting Grant project in which he is investigating the Archaeology of (Middle Assyrian) Imperialism with a team of six researchers and focusing on the rich dataset of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. The aim of the project is to better understand what repertoires of rule made the Assyrians successful and how these impacted on peripheral societies and landscapes. Second, Bleda is directing a long term Landscape Archaeology in the Wadi al Jizzi, near the city of Sohar in Oman. The aim of this project is to better explain the boom and bust phases in the past occupation of this marginal environment and how it was impacted by agricultural innovations, international trade and climatological developments.
Research Interest
Bleda’s earlier research focused on Neolithic Turkey. He was involved in the Çatalhöyük excavations, and wrote a PhD on the ‘clustered neighbourhood settlements’ of the central Anatolian Neolithic. He was subsequently field director in the Barcın Höyük excavations, a Neolithic site near Bursa, and went on to direct the Cide Archaeological Project: a 3 year survey project in the Turkish Black Sea that aimed to document sites of the poorly known Pre- and Protohistoric period in the region.
Publications
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Düring, B. S., Glatz & C. (2015), Kinetic Landscapes. The Cide Archaeological Project 2009-2011: Surveying the Western Turkish Black Sea Region.. Warsaw / Berlin: De Gruyter Open..
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During & Bleda S. (2016), Düring, B. S. (2016). The 8.2 event and the Neolithic expansion in Western Anatolia. Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East. P. F. B. a. O. P. Nieuwenhuyse. Albany, State University of New York Press: 135-150.. In: P. F. Biehl and O. P. Nieuwenhuyse (Ed.) Climate and Cultural Change in Prehistoric Europe and the Near East. Albany: State University of New York Press. 135-150.
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Düring B.S. (2016), Kucuk Asya'nin Tarihoncesi. Karmasik Avci-Toplayicilardan Erken Kentsel Toplumlara [Translation by Azer Keskin].. Istambul: Koc University Press.
