Güner Coskunsu
office
Spaulding 375
phone
(716) 645-0414
email
coskunsu@buffalo.edu
Title
Organizer of the Third IEMA Visiting Scholar Spring Conference
IEMA Post-doctoral Scholar 2009
Research Associate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, Boston University
Education
PhD 2007
Harvard University, Department of Archaeology, U.S.
Title: The End of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic in the Middle Euphrates Valley. The Lithic Assemblages of Mezraa Teleilat, Southeastern Turkey
MA 1999
Istanbul University, Prehistory Department, TurkeyTitle: Typological Classification of Çayönü Aceramic Neolithic Arrowheads and the Determination of Their Functions Through Use-wear Analysis (in Turkish)
BA 1994
Istanbul University, Department of Prehistory, Turkey
Research Interests
Middle Eastern archaeology
Transition from hunting gathering to agricultural way of life
Lithic and raw material provenance studies
Symbolism, social identity, gender, and material culture
Ethnographic archaeology
Prehistoric exchange/trade
Selected Publications
Coskunsu, G. (forthcoming), 2009 Flint and Obsidian Industry of Mezraa-Teleilat (Urfa-Turkey), PPN-PN. In E. Healey, S. Campbell, and O. Maeda (eds.), Beyond Tools. Reconsidering Definitions, Counting and Interpretation of Lithic Assemblages.4th Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Fertile Crescent (Studies in Technology, Environment, Production and Society). Berlin, ex oriente.
Coskunsu, G. 2008 Hole-Making Tools Of Mezraa Teleilat With Special Attention To Micro-Borers And Cylindrical Polished Drills And Bead Production. Neo-Lithics 1/08, pp. 25-36.
Coskunsu, G. 2007 Obsidian Assemblage Of Mezraa Teleilat: An Evidence Of Cultural And Chronological Continuation From Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic To Pottery Neolithic, Neo-Lithics 2/07, pp. 36-43.
Coskunsu, G. 2002 Mezraa-Teleilat Chipped Stone Industry, 2000. In N. Tuna and J. Velibeyoglu (eds.), Salvage Project of the Archaeological Heritage of the Ilisu and Carchemish Dam Reservoirs Activities in 2000. Middle East Technical University&TAÇDAM, Ankara, pp. 143-158.
Coskunsu, G., C. Lemorini 2001 The Function of Pre-Pottery Neolithic Projectile Points: the Limits of Morphological Analogy. In I. Caneva, C. Lemorini, D. Zampetti, and P. Biagi (eds.), Beyond Tools: Redefining the PPN Lithic Assemblages of the Levant. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on PPN Chipped Stone Lithic Industries, Series in Early Near Eastern Production, Subsistence, and Environment 9, Berlin, ex oriente, pp.145-159.