Canan Çakırlar is a senior lecturer and the director of the zooarchaeology lab of the Institute of Archaeology at Groningen University, Institute of Archaeology. She is interested in the dispersal and development of husbandry technologies, management of aquatic resources, climatic fluctuations and societal change, provisioning of state-level societies, and human impact on Holocene zoogeography. Her previous studies in western Turkey have focused on Ulucak, Yenibademli, and Troy. For more information, please visit her academic profile and the Archaeozoology Laboratory at Groningen University.