Eberhard Zangger, Alper Aşınmaz, and Serdal Mutlu
New open-access database has revealed 483 Bronze Age settlements in western Anatolia, helping to redraw the political and economic geography of the Late Bronze Age.
Eberhard Zangger (born 1958 in Kamen, Germany) is a German–Swiss archaeologist and geologist. He earned his master’s degree in archaeology and anthropology from Harvard University and his PhD in geology from Stanford University. Zangger served as a senior research associate in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. In 2014, he established the foundation Luwian Studies, which he has chaired as president of the board ever since.
Alper Aşınmaz is an archaeologist and geospatial and data science expert, specializing in digital applications in archaeology, cultural heritage management, and settlement pattern analysis. Since 2009, he has contributed to archaeological projects in Türkiye. He is the principal researcher responsible for developing the technical aspects of LuwianSiteAtlas, which took place since 2024.
Serdal Mutlu is an archaeologist with a degree from Selçuk University in Konya.
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