Tuna Kalaycı is an assistant professor of computational archaeology. His main quantitative interests are remote sensing, data analysis, and modelling. He also tackles questions of landscape archaeology and (ancient) cities. In particular, he focuses on productive landscapes, landscapes of movement, walking/walkability and neighbourhoods. His work also aims to positively challenge modern concepts, such as digitalisation, machine automation and smart cities. He is affiliated with the SAILS Initiative. He is a member of the Kerkenes Project, working on Iron Age urban dynamics.
Tuna holds degrees in Statistics (BSc), Settlement Archaeology (MSc), and Anthropology (PhD). His dissertation work at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, focused on the stability of urban systems during environmental crises. Next, he held a post-doctoral researcher position at the IMS-FORTH (Greece), specialising in remote sensing approaches to archaeology. Before joining Leiden University, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the ISPC-CNR (Italy) and Durham University (UK). His “Modern Geospatial Technologies for Ancient Movement Praxis” project produced computational tools to understand Bronze Age traffic in Upper Mesopotamia.
Karsten Lambers is an associate professor and head of the Digital Archaeology research group at the Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University. His research considers computational methods (e.g., Machine Learning) that enable the (semi-) automated extraction of meaningful archaeological entities from large bodies of digital data from different sources as a starting point for archaeological analysis and heritage management. Examples include the detection of burial mounds in LiDAR data and the detection of archaeological concepts in excavation reports. He also conducts multi-proxy analysis of human-environmental interaction with a focus on settlement patterns and resource use.
Karsten holds degrees in American Anthropology (MA, University of Bonn, 1998) and Prehistoric Archaeology (PhD, University of Zurich, 2005). His award-winning PhD research investigated the famed Nasca geoglyphs in southern Peru using a combination of field survey, remote sensing, 3D modelling and GIS-based spatial analysis. Before joining Leiden University, he held research and teaching positions at ETH Zurich, University of Zurich, the German Archaeological Institute, and the universities of Konstanz and Bamberg. At Leiden University he is affiliated with the SAILS initiative and directs research projects in computational archaeology and field projects in the Netherlands and in Switzerland.
Victor Klinkenberg Received His Phd In Near Eastern Archaeology At Leiden University In 2017. His Research Interests Include Digital Archaeology, Spatial Analysis, And Household Archaeology. Currently A Post-Doc At Leiden University, He Works As Project Manager In The ‘Setinstone’ Project And As Field Director At The Excavations Of A Chalcolithic Settlement At Palloures, Cyprus.
Key Publications: Düring, B.s., V. Klinkenberg, C. Paraskeva & E. Souter (2018) Metal Artefacts In Chalcolithic Cyprus: New Data From Western Cyprus. Mediterranean Archaeology And Archaeometry 18; Klinkenberg V. (2016) Reading Rubbish: Using Object Assemblages To Reconstruct Activities, Modes Of Deposition And Abandonment At The Late Bronze Age Dunnu Of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. Leiden: Nederlands Instituut Voor Het Nabije Oosten. Pihans Volume 129; Klinkenberg, V. (2015) Are We There Yet?! 3d Gis In Archaeological Research, The Case Of Tell Sabi Abyad, Syria. In: Kamermans, H., De Neef, W., Piccoli, C., Posluschny, A.g. And Scopigno, R. (Eds.): The Three Dimensions Of Archaeology. Proceedings Of The Xvii World Congress Of Uispp. Archaeopress, Oxford.
