Dr. Erkan Dündar is an associate professor at Akdeniz University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Underwater Archeology. Dr. Dündar, who has been working in Patara since 2003, has been the vice president of excavations since 2020. He has been responsible for the excavations of Tepecik Settlement since 2013 in Patara excavations. His areas of expertise are Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic ceramics, commercial amphorae, and amphora stamps. His areas of interest are late Classical-early Hellenistic defense and domestic architecture. For more information, please visit his academic profile.