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Afet Hamzaoğlu

Afet Hamzaoğlu

Istanbul, Turkey

Based at a leading Istanbul-based corporation, she designs and implements diversity initiatives rooted in Turkish social and cultural contexts. Her background includes policy development, stakeholder engagement, and training programs, with certifications in intercultural communication. Her work aims to foster inclusive workplace environments that reflect Turkey’s rich cultural mosaic.

A Neolithic Village Just Tripled In Size And It Has No Kings

A Neolithic Village Just Tripled In Size And It Has No Kings

The Numbers Just Changed And It Changes Everything For decades, we accepted a quiet figure. Around two hundred people lived in this specific spot. That number came from the s. It was based on isolated trenches and a limited view of the ground. Now we know that was wrong by

Why a medieval church cross is actually a piece of a prehistoric monolith

Why a medieval church cross is actually a piece of a prehistoric monolith

A four-century-old mystery finally solved by modern science The Devil's Arrows have stood near Boroughbridge for millennia. Tallest prehistoric stone row in Britain, in fact. And most people assume they got there by accident. That assumption is now dead. A study from the University of York

The 7 Neolithic Inventions That Outsmarted Modern Engineering

The 7 Neolithic Inventions That Outsmarted Modern Engineering

The Misconception That Stone Was Just a Rough Tool We have been lied to about what our ancestors could do. The Neolithic era gets this blurry treatment — mud huts, chipped rocks, clumsy hands. But I have spent the last few years digging into this specific period. And what we are

The weird ceramic goat that changed how we think about ancient farming

The weird ceramic goat that changed how we think about ancient farming

The Goat That Guarded the Grain Picture a tiny ceramic animal. It looks like a little table with legs. Now set it down beside sacks of ancient wheat. That's precisely what turned up. Archaeologists in North Macedonia pulled this strange object out of an eight-thousand-year-old

A massive wildfire might have forced Neolithic people to invent pottery

A massive wildfire might have forced Neolithic people to invent pottery

The Fire That Changed Everything Picture this: the biggest technological leap in human history didn't come from curiosity or need. It came from chaos. A massive, uncontrollable blaze that stripped the landscape bare and left a strange, hardened substance sitting on the valley floor. For decades, we assumed

Archaeologists trained AI on fake data and it found real ruins better than humans

Archaeologists trained AI on fake data and it found real ruins better than humans

The label shortage that froze AI in its tracks Deep learning models are hungry. I mean truly hungry — they need hundreds, sometimes thousands, of labeled examples before they can reliably recognize what a specific object looks like in the wild. That approach works fine when you're dealing with

The Neolithic Revolution Was a Massive Mistake

The Neolithic Revolution Was a Massive Mistake

The Lie We Tell About Progress We have been sold a fairy tale. For two centuries, history books told us that the shift to farming was humanity's biggest leap forward. It was supposed to be the moment we finally got our act together. But look closer. The data