B Balkan-Atlı, Nur Ece Birc¸ek Istanbul, Turkey Basic Biographical Information Nur Balkan-Atlı was born in 1953 in Aydın, Turkey After graduating from Robert College, she went to Paris and studied prehistory, anthro- pology, and ethnology at Sorbonne University. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. with a disserta- tion titled The Neolithization of Anatolia from the Sorbonne University in 1985. Atlı was assigned as a specialist to the Prehistory Department of I ˙ stanbul University in 1987 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in 1995 and then Professor in 2000. Major Accomplishments Nur Balkan Atlı’s major field of study is the Paleolithic period of prehistoric archaeology and lithic technologies. Since 1995, she has mostly focused on the obsidian beds and working areas in the Cappadocia region in Turkey. After working in El Kown, Qdeir (Suriye), Cafer Ho¨yu¨k (Malatya), and As¸ıklı Ho¨yu¨k (Aksaray) on exca- vations, she started an ongoing study through the Cappadocia Obsidian Research Project. She is connected to the French Institute of Anato- lian Studies and is a researcher and a member of the monitoring committee. Nur Balkan Atlı is also a foreign member of the French CNRS Archiorient Group, a local con- sultant of the European Commission INCO-MED Programme, and a member of the American Research Institute of Turkey and similar scien- tific institutions. She currently serves on the edi- torial board of journals including “Anatolia Antiqua” and “Paliorie´nt.” She has published the book La Niolithisation de l’Anatolie and numerous scientific articles. Cross-References ▶ Art, Paleolithic ▶ Lithic Technology, Paleolithic Further Reading BALKAN-ATLI, N. 1993. Els primers poblats neolithics d’Anato`lia. Cota Zero 9: 25-30. - 1994. La Ne´olithisation de l’Anatolie. Istanbul: IFEA; Paris: Editions Broccard. - 1995. Preliminary report of the chipped stone industry of Deg˘irmentepe, an Ubaid settlement in eastern Ana- tolia, in Readings in prehistory: studies presented to Halet C¸ ambel: 127-48. I ˙ stanbul: EgeYayınları. - 1998. The aceramic Neolithic of central Anatolia: recent finds in the chipped stone industry, in G. Arsebu¨k, C. Smith (ed.), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2, # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014