Dr Müge Ergun
Müge Ergun is an archaeologist and archaeobotanist whose research focuses on agricultural practices and foraging strategies throughout prehistory, and their impact on the economic and socio-cultural lives of the past communities. Her research interest further extends to understand the effects of people's diverse plant-based activities on the environment. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in The EXPLO project, where she takes part in the interdisciplinary research on the earliest farming communities in the South of Balkans.
She received her Ph.D. in archaeology from the Istanbul University's Department of Prehistory and the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University Doctoral School of Archaeology (co-tutelle, 2016). Dr. Ergun was previously an environmental archaeology post-doctoral fellow in the Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED). She has recently been working on the projects focusing on early Neolithic communities (9th-6th millennium cal. BC) from Central Anatolia (Aşıklı Höyük and Balıklı), Mediterranean and Aegean Anatolia (Girmeler Cave and Uğurlu-Zeytinli) and Cyprus (Tatlısu-Çiftlikdüzü/ Akanthou-Arkosykos), as well as later Hellenistic-Roman site (Pergamon) in the Aegean.