Hacettepe Skeletal Biology Laboratory (HUSBIO_L)

About

HUSBIO_L is a pioneering laboratory which harbors human skeletal remains unearthed from archaeological excavations in Turkey. Cutting-edge studies involving national and international collaborations are carried out in various fields of bioarchaeology such as burial customs, population history, demography, diet, diseases, daily activity on more than 12.000 human skeletons from more than 50 different archaeological sites that were excavated with the contributions of the students and academic staff.

Research Infrastructure

• Human skeletal remains (12,000)
• Trinocular Microscope
• X-Ray Device

Researchers

•    Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Selim Erdal
•    Prof. Dr. Serpil Eroğlu-Çelebi
•    Prof. Dr. Ömür Dilek Erdal
•    Araş. Gör. Dr. Meliha Melis Koruyucu
•    Araş. Gör. Demet Delibaş
•    Valentina D’Amico
 

Ongoing Projects

•    Neogene

Completed Projects

Publications

•    Laneri, N., Jalilov, B., Erdal, Y.S. Valentini, S., Poulmarc’h, M., Guarducci, G., Crescioli, L., Berthon, R., D’Amico, V., Pappalardo, C., Russo, S.G., Huseynova, L., 2020. Reconstructıng funerary sequences of kurgans ın the southern caucasus: The first two seasons of the Azerbaijani-Italian Ganja Region Kurgan Archaeological Region Project (GaRKAP) in western Azerbaijan. Anatolica 46: 103-145.
•    Itahashi, Y., Stiner, M.C. Erdal, O.D., Duru, G., Erdal, Y.S., Miyake, Y., Güral, D., Yoneda, M., Özbaşaran, M., Under Review: The impact of the transition from broad-spectrum hunting to sheep herding on human meat consumption: multi-isotopic analyses of human bone collagen at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Sciences.
•    Erfal Y.S. Under Review. Tooth as a Tool:  Activity Induced Dental Abrasion in Prehistoric Anatolia. Paleorient,
•    Koruyuc, MM. Erdal Y.S.  Under Review Reconstruction of dietary habits in the Early Bronze Age of Anatolia through the analysis of dental caries and wear. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
•    Erdal Y.S. 2019. Middle Chalcolithic burials from Yumuktepe. The Chalcolithic at Mersin-Yumuktepe: Level XVI Reconsidered. In: Palumbi G., Caneva I. (eds.) Istanbul: Ege Yayınları. Pp:181-183.
•    Frangipane, M., Balossi-Restelli, F.,  Di Nicora, G.M., Erdal Y.S..   Manuelli, F.,  Mori, L. 2019.  Recent Late Chalcolithic and Iron Age Discoveries at Arslantepe: The 2017–2018 Campaigns. In: The Archaeology of Anatolia, Volume III: Recent Discoveries (2017–2018), Steadman, S.R., McMahon, G. (eds). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishn pp: 15-32.
•    Erdal Y.S. 2019. An Evaluation of the Demographic Structure of the Neolithic  People at Bademağacı Höyük from a Biocultural Perspective. In: Excavatıons At Bademağacı Höyük – I The Neolıthıc and Early Chalcolıthıc Settlements.  I Duru, R., Umurtak., G. (eds.)  Istanbul: Ege Yayınları. Pp:89-111.
•    Erdal Y.S. 2019. Interpreting Subadult Burials and Head Shaping at Çadır Höyük. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology Heritage Studies.
•    Özdemir, K., Erdal Ç.D., Erdal Y.S. 2018  A Case of Pituitary Gigantism and Acromegaly in Anatolia (Tasmasor, Erzurum, Turkey). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27 (5): 725-744. (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/oa.2590
•    Erdal, Ö.D. 2018 Demre Aziz Nikolaos Kilisesi İnsanları: 1989-2007 Kazı Sezonu İskelet Kalıntıları. Doğan, S.,  Fındık, E.F. (Eds.) Aziz Nikolaos Kilisesi Kazıları Homer yayınevi.
•    Erdal, Ö.D. 2018 Lifestyle and Health Conditions of the Neolithic people of Aşıklı Höyük. Özbaşaran, M., Duru, G., Stiner, M. (Eds.) The Early Settlement at Aşıklı Höyük. Ege yayınları.
•    Koruyucu, M. M., Şahin, F. S., Delibaş, D. E. M. E. T., Erdal, Ö. D., Benz, M., Özkaya, V., & Erdal, Y. S. (2018). Auditory exostosis: Exploring the daily life at an early sedentary population (Körtik Tepe, Turkey). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 28(6), 615-625.
•    Kodaş, E. Sağlamtimur, H. Erdal Y.S. 2018. Three human graves of the Hassuna culture in Türbe Höyük. Anatolia Antiqua 26: 13-21
•    Benz, M. Alt. K.W. Erdal, Y.S. Şahin, F.S. Özkaya, V. 2018. Re-presenting the past: Evidence from daily practices and rituals at Körtik Tepe. Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life, edited by I. Hodder, University Press of Colorado, Louisville, Colorado, 2018, pp. 137–161.
•    Erdal, Ö. D. (2017). Köşk höyük Ortaçağ topluluğunda bebek ve çocuk ölümlülüğü. Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Dergisi, 60(3), 88-103.
•    Marin A. P., Somel, M., Haddow S.D., Knüsel, C.J., Larsen, C.S., Ӧzbaşaran, M., Erdal, Ö.D., Baird,D., Pearson, J., Götherström, A., Storå, J., Jakobsson, M., Kılınç, G.M., Özer, F., Koptekin, D., Dağtaş, N.D. (2017). Mobility in Neolithic central Anatolia: A comparison of dental morphometrics and aDNA. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol, 162, 316.
•    Erdal, Y.S., Özdemir K., Erdal Ö.D. (2017). Acemhöyük’ten bir insan iskeletinde saptanan yaralanmaların adli antropolojik açıdan incelenmesi. Özkan, Ö etal. (Eds.) Samsat’tan Acemhöyük’e Eski Uygaelıkların İzinde: Aliye Öztan’a Armağan. Ege Üniv. Basımevi. ss. 105-119.
•    Özdemir, K., Erdal, Ö.D., Erdal, Y.S. (2017). A Case of Pituitary Gigantism and Acromegaly in Anatolia (Tasmasor, Erzurum, Turkey). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27(5), 725-744.
•    Erdal YS. 2017. Bakla Tepe Genç Tunç Çağı Mezarlarındaki İnsan Kalıntılarının Ölü Gömme Açısından Değerlendirilmesi. The Evaluation of the Human Remains Late Bronze Age Graves in Relation to Burial Customs.  İn Ayşegül Aykurt Hayat Erkanal ve Yılmaz Selim Erdal. Bakla Tepe Geç Tunç Çağı Mezarları Late Bronze Age Graves  of Bakla Tepe. Ankara: Ankara Üniversitesi Yayınları, pp:241-277.
•    Erdal Y.S. Erdal Ö.D. 2017. Anthropological Analysis of the Skeletal Remains from the Acropolis of Perge. In Wolfram Martini – Norbert Eschbach (Eds.). Die Akropolis Von Perge Die Ergebnisse Der Grabungen 1998-2004 und 2008, Perge Akropolisi 1998-2004 ile 2008 Yılları Kazı Sonuçları. Antalya: Koç Üniversitesi Suna & Inan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi, pp:341-347.  
•    Berthon, R., Erdal, Y.S. Mashkour, M., Kozbe, G. 2016. Buried with turtles: the symbolic role of the Euphrates soft-shelled turtle (Rafetus euphraticus) in Mesopotamia. Antiquity, 90 (349):111-125.
•    Benz, M., Erdal, Y.S., Şahin, F., Özkaya, V., Alt, K.W. 2015. The equality of inequality- Social Differantiation among the hunter-fisher-gatherer community of Körtik Tepe, South-eastern Turkey. In: Rich and Poor- Competing for resources in Prehistoric Societies. (eds. Meller HH., Hahn, HP., Jung, R., Risch, R.). pp.147-164. Halle:Tagungen des Landesmuseum für Vorgeshsichte Halle.
•    Erdal, Y.S., Koruyucu, M.M., Erdal Ö.D. (2015). Ortaçağ’da Nüfus Değişimi Öncesine Ait Bir Bizans Topluluğu: Komana İnsan Kalıntılarının Antropolojik Analizi.  Erciyas, DB., MN Tatbul (Eds.) Komana Ortaçağ Yerleşimi, 83-114.
•    Erdal, Y.S. 2015. Bone or Flesh: Defleshing and Post-Depositional Treatments at Körtik Tepe (Southeastern Anatolia, PPNA Period). Europen Journal of Archaeology, 18:4-32.

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About

HUSBIO_L is a pioneering laboratory which harbors human skeletal remains unearthed from archaeological excavations in Turkey. Cutting-edge studies involving national and international collaborations are carried out in various fields of bioarchaeology such as burial customs, population history, demography, diet, diseases, daily activity on more than 12.000 human skeletons from more than 50 different archaeological sites that were excavated with the contributions of the students and academic staff.

Research Infrastructure

• Human skeletal remains (12,000)
• Trinocular Microscope
• X-Ray Device

Researchers

•    Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Selim Erdal
•    Prof. Dr. Serpil Eroğlu-Çelebi
•    Prof. Dr. Ömür Dilek Erdal
•    Araş. Gör. Dr. Meliha Melis Koruyucu
•    Araş. Gör. Demet Delibaş
•    Valentina D’Amico
 

Ongoing Projects

•    Neogene

Completed Projects

Publications

•    Laneri, N., Jalilov, B., Erdal, Y.S. Valentini, S., Poulmarc’h, M., Guarducci, G., Crescioli, L., Berthon, R., D’Amico, V., Pappalardo, C., Russo, S.G., Huseynova, L., 2020. Reconstructıng funerary sequences of kurgans ın the southern caucasus: The first two seasons of the Azerbaijani-Italian Ganja Region Kurgan Archaeological Region Project (GaRKAP) in western Azerbaijan. Anatolica 46: 103-145.
•    Itahashi, Y., Stiner, M.C. Erdal, O.D., Duru, G., Erdal, Y.S., Miyake, Y., Güral, D., Yoneda, M., Özbaşaran, M., Under Review: The impact of the transition from broad-spectrum hunting to sheep herding on human meat consumption: multi-isotopic analyses of human bone collagen at Aşıklı Höyük, Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Sciences.
•    Erfal Y.S. Under Review. Tooth as a Tool:  Activity Induced Dental Abrasion in Prehistoric Anatolia. Paleorient,
•    Koruyuc, MM. Erdal Y.S.  Under Review Reconstruction of dietary habits in the Early Bronze Age of Anatolia through the analysis of dental caries and wear. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.
•    Erdal Y.S. 2019. Middle Chalcolithic burials from Yumuktepe. The Chalcolithic at Mersin-Yumuktepe: Level XVI Reconsidered. In: Palumbi G., Caneva I. (eds.) Istanbul: Ege Yayınları. Pp:181-183.
•    Frangipane, M., Balossi-Restelli, F.,  Di Nicora, G.M., Erdal Y.S..   Manuelli, F.,  Mori, L. 2019.  Recent Late Chalcolithic and Iron Age Discoveries at Arslantepe: The 2017–2018 Campaigns. In: The Archaeology of Anatolia, Volume III: Recent Discoveries (2017–2018), Steadman, S.R., McMahon, G. (eds). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholar Publishn pp: 15-32.
•    Erdal Y.S. 2019. An Evaluation of the Demographic Structure of the Neolithic  People at Bademağacı Höyük from a Biocultural Perspective. In: Excavatıons At Bademağacı Höyük – I The Neolıthıc and Early Chalcolıthıc Settlements.  I Duru, R., Umurtak., G. (eds.)  Istanbul: Ege Yayınları. Pp:89-111.
•    Erdal Y.S. 2019. Interpreting Subadult Burials and Head Shaping at Çadır Höyük. Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology Heritage Studies.
•    Özdemir, K., Erdal Ç.D., Erdal Y.S. 2018  A Case of Pituitary Gigantism and Acromegaly in Anatolia (Tasmasor, Erzurum, Turkey). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27 (5): 725-744. (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/oa.2590
•    Erdal, Ö.D. 2018 Demre Aziz Nikolaos Kilisesi İnsanları: 1989-2007 Kazı Sezonu İskelet Kalıntıları. Doğan, S.,  Fındık, E.F. (Eds.) Aziz Nikolaos Kilisesi Kazıları Homer yayınevi.
•    Erdal, Ö.D. 2018 Lifestyle and Health Conditions of the Neolithic people of Aşıklı Höyük. Özbaşaran, M., Duru, G., Stiner, M. (Eds.) The Early Settlement at Aşıklı Höyük. Ege yayınları.
•    Koruyucu, M. M., Şahin, F. S., Delibaş, D. E. M. E. T., Erdal, Ö. D., Benz, M., Özkaya, V., & Erdal, Y. S. (2018). Auditory exostosis: Exploring the daily life at an early sedentary population (Körtik Tepe, Turkey). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 28(6), 615-625.
•    Kodaş, E. Sağlamtimur, H. Erdal Y.S. 2018. Three human graves of the Hassuna culture in Türbe Höyük. Anatolia Antiqua 26: 13-21
•    Benz, M. Alt. K.W. Erdal, Y.S. Şahin, F.S. Özkaya, V. 2018. Re-presenting the past: Evidence from daily practices and rituals at Körtik Tepe. Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life, edited by I. Hodder, University Press of Colorado, Louisville, Colorado, 2018, pp. 137–161.
•    Erdal, Ö. D. (2017). Köşk höyük Ortaçağ topluluğunda bebek ve çocuk ölümlülüğü. Çocuk Sağlığı ve Hastalıkları Dergisi, 60(3), 88-103.
•    Marin A. P., Somel, M., Haddow S.D., Knüsel, C.J., Larsen, C.S., Ӧzbaşaran, M., Erdal, Ö.D., Baird,D., Pearson, J., Götherström, A., Storå, J., Jakobsson, M., Kılınç, G.M., Özer, F., Koptekin, D., Dağtaş, N.D. (2017). Mobility in Neolithic central Anatolia: A comparison of dental morphometrics and aDNA. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol, 162, 316.
•    Erdal, Y.S., Özdemir K., Erdal Ö.D. (2017). Acemhöyük’ten bir insan iskeletinde saptanan yaralanmaların adli antropolojik açıdan incelenmesi. Özkan, Ö etal. (Eds.) Samsat’tan Acemhöyük’e Eski Uygaelıkların İzinde: Aliye Öztan’a Armağan. Ege Üniv. Basımevi. ss. 105-119.
•    Özdemir, K., Erdal, Ö.D., Erdal, Y.S. (2017). A Case of Pituitary Gigantism and Acromegaly in Anatolia (Tasmasor, Erzurum, Turkey). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 27(5), 725-744.
•    Erdal YS. 2017. Bakla Tepe Genç Tunç Çağı Mezarlarındaki İnsan Kalıntılarının Ölü Gömme Açısından Değerlendirilmesi. The Evaluation of the Human Remains Late Bronze Age Graves in Relation to Burial Customs.  İn Ayşegül Aykurt Hayat Erkanal ve Yılmaz Selim Erdal. Bakla Tepe Geç Tunç Çağı Mezarları Late Bronze Age Graves  of Bakla Tepe. Ankara: Ankara Üniversitesi Yayınları, pp:241-277.
•    Erdal Y.S. Erdal Ö.D. 2017. Anthropological Analysis of the Skeletal Remains from the Acropolis of Perge. In Wolfram Martini – Norbert Eschbach (Eds.). Die Akropolis Von Perge Die Ergebnisse Der Grabungen 1998-2004 und 2008, Perge Akropolisi 1998-2004 ile 2008 Yılları Kazı Sonuçları. Antalya: Koç Üniversitesi Suna & Inan Kıraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Merkezi, pp:341-347.  
•    Berthon, R., Erdal, Y.S. Mashkour, M., Kozbe, G. 2016. Buried with turtles: the symbolic role of the Euphrates soft-shelled turtle (Rafetus euphraticus) in Mesopotamia. Antiquity, 90 (349):111-125.
•    Benz, M., Erdal, Y.S., Şahin, F., Özkaya, V., Alt, K.W. 2015. The equality of inequality- Social Differantiation among the hunter-fisher-gatherer community of Körtik Tepe, South-eastern Turkey. In: Rich and Poor- Competing for resources in Prehistoric Societies. (eds. Meller HH., Hahn, HP., Jung, R., Risch, R.). pp.147-164. Halle:Tagungen des Landesmuseum für Vorgeshsichte Halle.
•    Erdal, Y.S., Koruyucu, M.M., Erdal Ö.D. (2015). Ortaçağ’da Nüfus Değişimi Öncesine Ait Bir Bizans Topluluğu: Komana İnsan Kalıntılarının Antropolojik Analizi.  Erciyas, DB., MN Tatbul (Eds.) Komana Ortaçağ Yerleşimi, 83-114.
•    Erdal, Y.S. 2015. Bone or Flesh: Defleshing and Post-Depositional Treatments at Körtik Tepe (Southeastern Anatolia, PPNA Period). Europen Journal of Archaeology, 18:4-32.

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