Kaan İren

Prof. Dr. Kaan İren has been a professor of Archaeology at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University (MSKU) since 2013. He received his B.A. in archaeology at Istanbul University in 1990, his M.A. in archaeology at Istanbul University in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Archaeology at Ruhr-Bochum University in 1999. He has conducted archaeological surveys in ancient Aiolis and Karia, and he has been the director of the Daskyleion expedition since 2009. He coordinated national and international projects in archaeology funded by the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Institute and the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism. He is the director of the Center for Archaeological and Archaeometric Studies in MSKU and a member of several archaeological foundations and earned several grants and awards. His research interests include Early Iron Age archaeology in western and central Anatolia (with an emphasis on Southern Aeolia, Mysia and Caria), ethnohistory, pottery, social identity, and technology in archaeology. He is currently teaching Iron Age pottery, comparative mythology, and theoretical archaeology.