Dr Lee Clare coordinates the Göbekli Tepe Research Project at the German Archaeological Institute (DAI). He completed his master’s degree at the University of Cologne in 2005, majoring in prehistoric archaeology. After completing his PhD in 2013, which focused on Early Holocene climate-culture interactions in the Eastern Mediterranean, he joined the DAI’s Orient Department as a post-doctoral fellow. In 2015, he took on the position of research coordinator of the DFG long-term project at Göbekli Tepe. In 2019, he moved to the DAI’s Istanbul Department, where he is now acting consultant for prehistoric archaeology. His areas of academic interest include Neolithisation and Neolithic dispersal processes, Early-Middle Holocene, absolute chronologies, culture-climate interaction, prehistoric conflict and cognitive archaeology.

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