Ceren Kabukcu, Ph.D., is a bioarchaeologist with expertise on the identification and analysis of carbonized plant remains from archaeological habitations of early farmers and late Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers from the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean. She completed her Ph.D. in Liverpool and subsequently held a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship with a project looking at the long-term patterns of plant use at a range of hunter-gatherer sites on the Taurus and Zagros Mountains. She is currently working on a project looking at the prehistory of pastoralist settlements in Mongolia.
Talks with this Speaker
Did Plants Domesticate Humans? | The First Entanglement
Scientists at a Neolithic dig site explore how the desire for innovation collided with a random mutation in wild wheat thousands of years ago — with consequences that rippled through history in ways early humans could have never imagined. (Talk recorded in January 2023)
Audience:
- General Public
Duration: 00:13:56
