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Çetin Koçyiğit

Çetin Koçyiğit

Istanbul, Turkey

With a background in journalism from Istanbul University, she has covered Turkey’s evolving art scene, including contemporary exhibitions, cultural policy debates, and artist interviews. Her reporting combines on-the-ground insights with critical analysis, earning recognition in national journalism awards. She maintains connections with artists and cultural institutions across Turkey.

The Neolithic Tool That Makes Modern Steel Look Amateur

The Neolithic Tool That Makes Modern Steel Look Amateur

The Myth of the Clumsy Ancestor We've all seen the cartoons. The caveman dragging a jagged rock around like a toddler with a toy hammer. Funny, right? It's funny because we know better — we've got cars and phones and espresso machines. But that image

The Neolithic Tool That Makes Modern Steel Look Amateur

The Neolithic Tool That Makes Modern Steel Look Amateur

The Sharpness Paradox in Prehistory You probably figure ancient people were clumsy with their tools. I did too, once. Then I held a replica obsidian blade. The edge was sharper than any surgical scalpel I have ever seen. That's a wild claim for something made of volcanic glass

Who was running a copper factory in Turkey nine thousand years ago

Who was running a copper factory in Turkey nine thousand years ago

The Workshop That Should Not Exist Yet Picture a modern factory floor. Machines hum. Workers move with purpose. Now shrink that whole scene down by a few thousand years. That's basically what archaeologists uncovered at Cayonu Tepesi. A five-square-meter space, paved with stone, packed with copper

Why Women Were The Only Ones Allowed To Leave Their Neolithic Villages

Why Women Were The Only Ones Allowed To Leave Their Neolithic Villages

A Hidden Blueprint Inside Ancient Teeth We usually think of archaeology as digging up bones and pots. But the most revealing evidence is often hidden in plain sight within a tooth. Researchers from Durham University analyzed the jaws of seventy-one individuals. These people lived between eleven thousand and seven

An 11,000-year-old man riding a leopard just shattered every assumption we had about primitive society

An 11,000-year-old man riding a leopard just shattered every assumption we had about primitive society

The Sculpture That Defies Logic Imagine finding a toy from the 20th century in a cave. You would assume it was dropped by a child or left behind during an evacuation. Now scale that up to eleven thousand years ago. No cities existed yet. There were no written records. Just

You have been taught that Indigenous archaeology is a myth but one project just proved you wrong

You have been taught that Indigenous archaeology is a myth but one project just proved you wrong

The quiet erasure hiding in plain sight For decades, the archaeological record treated a specific group as ghosts. They were there, they built things, and they left behind material culture that told stories of vibrant life. Yet, for generations, Western taxonomies simply refused to acknowledge them. The label was "

The construction crew that broke ground in 2017 found a city that shouldnt exist yet

The construction crew that broke ground in 2017 found a city that shouldnt exist yet

The dig that broke the rulebook Picture a construction crew in Şanlıurfa, breaking ground on what should have been a routine project. What they uncovered instead reads like something out of a history book that hasn't been written yet. The Taş Tepeler site dates back to roughly 8500