University College London

Graduate Student, Institute of Archaeology

Thesis Title: Networks of interaction in Early Bronze Age Anatolia

About

I am a research student at University College London, and my doctoral project focuses on defining dynamic cultural groups in Turkey during the third millennium BC, and the interaction within these communities and between them and a wider area that includes the Aegean, the Black Sea, the Balkans, the Caucasus and Syro-Mesopotamia. The presence of roads/routes connected with trade will also be investigated using comparison with actual EBA sites, dispersal of artefact classes, later textual evidence (Old Assyrian/Hittiite) and the Roman road network. The final aim is to analyse the development of Anatolian communities in terms of social complexity, and the factors that may have influenced their growth (landscape constraints, natural resources, important trade routes, exogenous stimuli, etc.). I am also interested in funerary archaeology, mainly through spatial and statistical analysis.