Research interests

• Farming and society in prehistory
• Agricultural responses to climate change
• Emergent wealth inequality and urbanisation
• Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean
• Practical archaeobotany (including stable isotope analysis and functional weed ecology)

Education

• 2022 – DPhil Archaeological Science, University of Oxford. Thesis titled: ‘Agriculture and citadel in the Bronze Age Aegean: the view from western Anatolia’
• 2017 – MSc Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy, University of Sheffield
• 2016 – BSc Archaeology, University of Sheffield

Employment/affiliations

• Since 2022: Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Archaeology, Migration and the Making of the Ancient Greek World (MIGMAG), Institute for Classical Archaeology, University of Vienna.
• 2022-23: Early Career Research Associate, School of Archaeology, University of Oxford.

Publications

Articles

• 2022  Maltas, T., Şahoğlu, V., Erkanal, H. and Tuncel, R. ‘Prehistoric farming settlements in western Anatolia: archaeobotanical insights into the Late Chalcolithic of the Izmir region, Turkey’. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 34 (2). 252-77

Monograph chapters

• 2017  Maltas, T. ‘Charred Plant Remains from a Tree Throw in Trench 24, Blick Mead’. In: Jacques, D. (ed), Blick Mead: exploring the ‘first place’ in the Stonehenge landscape. Oxford: Peter Lang. 65-66