Tom Maltas
Career Development Fellow in European Archaeology, Keble College, University of Oxford
Research interests:
Agricultural adaptations in early societies – Emergent socio-political inequality and urbanisation – Prehistoric Aegean and Anatolia – Agricultural responses to climate change – Practical archaeobotany (including stable isotopes and functional ecology)
Current projects:
Greece - Thermi, Early Bronze Age (with Evi Margaritis, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus)
Turkey - ‘Izmir region excavation and research project (IRERP)’, Chalcolithic to Late Bronze Age (with Vasıf Şahoğlu, University of Ankara, Turkey; Ourania Kouka, University of Cyprus, Cyprus). Project Archaeobotanist
Turkey - Çine-Tepecik, Chalcolithic to Late Bronze Age (with Sevinç Günel, Hacettepe University, Turkey). Project Archaeobotanist
Israel - Tel Gezer, Iron Age (with Lyndelle Webster, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
Research interests:
Agricultural adaptations in early societies – Emergent socio-political inequality and urbanisation – Prehistoric Aegean and Anatolia – Agricultural responses to climate change – Practical archaeobotany (including stable isotopes and functional ecology)
Current projects:
Greece - Thermi, Early Bronze Age (with Evi Margaritis, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus)
Turkey - ‘Izmir region excavation and research project (IRERP)’, Chalcolithic to Late Bronze Age (with Vasıf Şahoğlu, University of Ankara, Turkey; Ourania Kouka, University of Cyprus, Cyprus). Project Archaeobotanist
Turkey - Çine-Tepecik, Chalcolithic to Late Bronze Age (with Sevinç Günel, Hacettepe University, Turkey). Project Archaeobotanist
Israel - Tel Gezer, Iron Age (with Lyndelle Webster, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
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processed and stored their own crops, but we also propose that potentially communal extra-household storage and high levels of social monitoring may attest to supra-household cooperation. The later agricultural history of the vetchling species and the prevalence of extra-household storage at sites in coastal western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean islands add to evidence for a cultural koine between these regions in the fourth and third millennia bc. We also suggest that the large size of extra-household storage structures and the narrow range of crops cultivated at some Late Chalcolithic sites are consistent with the emergence of more extensive farming systems than those of earlier periods. Evidence for the use of extensive agricultural production to amass arable wealth by the citadel elites of later Early Bronze Age western Anatolia suggests that the agro-ecological foundations for emergent wealth inequality within the region were laid during the Late Chalcolithic. Testing this hypothesis through direct evidence for the nature of Late Chalcolithic farming systems is a key aim of ongoing research.
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processed and stored their own crops, but we also propose that potentially communal extra-household storage and high levels of social monitoring may attest to supra-household cooperation. The later agricultural history of the vetchling species and the prevalence of extra-household storage at sites in coastal western Anatolia and the eastern Aegean islands add to evidence for a cultural koine between these regions in the fourth and third millennia bc. We also suggest that the large size of extra-household storage structures and the narrow range of crops cultivated at some Late Chalcolithic sites are consistent with the emergence of more extensive farming systems than those of earlier periods. Evidence for the use of extensive agricultural production to amass arable wealth by the citadel elites of later Early Bronze Age western Anatolia suggests that the agro-ecological foundations for emergent wealth inequality within the region were laid during the Late Chalcolithic. Testing this hypothesis through direct evidence for the nature of Late Chalcolithic farming systems is a key aim of ongoing research.