Biography
Toby C. Wilkinson joined the McDonald Institute as Senior Research Associate in January 2023. He previously worked as a Marie SkÅ‚odowska Curie Fellow at ICAC (the Catalan Institute of Classical 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ), in Tarragona (2020-2022); and before that as a post-doctoral Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ (2016-2020). His doctorate was completed at the University of Sheffield in 2012; he also worked as a researcher in Turkey, at the British Institute at Ankara, Koç University’s Research Centre for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) and Istanbul University.
Note: if you’re looking for Toby A. H. Wilkinson, the Egyptologist, also currently based in Cambridge, you’ll find his contact details here:
Research
Toby C. Wilkinson is an archaeologist whose research interests include spatial and computational archaeology, survey and landscape methodology (both Mediterranean and western Asia), open-access and web publication, material culture (metallurgy, textiles and metrology) and deep histories of economy in Eurasia (especially Anatolia, the Aegean, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Magreb).
Key Publications
MONOGRAPHS
A.S. Green, T.C. Wilkinson, D.A. Wilkinson, N. Highcock and T.P. Leppard (2024). Cities and Citadels: An 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ of Inequality and Economic Growth. Routledge. [OA ebook doi:] – See also website
T.C. Wilkinson (2014). Tying the Threads of Eurasia: Trans-regional Routes and Material Flows in Transcaucasia, eastern Anatolia and western Central Asia, c. 3000-1500BC. Leiden, Sidestone Press. 408pp. ISBNs: paperback 9789088902444 | hardback 9789088903878 | OA pdf Ìý
EDITED VOLUMES
S. Sherratt and T.C. Wilkinson (eds.) (2023). Circuits of Metal Value: Changing Roles of Metals in the Early Aegean and Nearby Lands. Sheffield Studies in Aegean 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ 14. Oxford, Oxbow Books.
ARTICLES
C. Broodbank, G. Lucarini, Y. Bokbot, H. Benattia, A. Bigoulimen, L. Farr , A. Garcia-Molsosa, H. Hachami, R. Laoutari, L. Lombardi, A. Marsilio, L. Martin, J. Morales, M. Radi, F. M. Rega , T. Wilkinson (2024). Oued Beht, Morocco: a complex early farming society in north-west Africa and its implications for western Mediterranean interaction during later prehistory. Antiquity 98(401):1199-1218. doi:
A.R. Knodell, T.C. Wilkinson, T. Leppard and H.A. Orengo (2022). Survey 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ in the Mediterranean World: Regional Traditions and Contributions to Long-Term History. Journal of Archaeological Research 2022: doi:.
T.C. Wilkinson and A. Slawisch (2020) An agro-pastoral palimpsest: New insights into the historical rural economy of the Milesian peninsula from aerial and remote-sensing imagery. Anatolian Studies 70: 181 - 206. doi:
G. Lucarini, T. Wilkinson, E.R. Crema, A. Palombini, A. Bevan and C. Broodbank (2020) The MedAfriCarbon Radiocarbon Database and Web Application. Archaeological Dynamics in Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600–700 BC. Journal of Open 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ Data, 8(1), 1: doi: | live database:
A. Slawisch and T.C. Wilkinson (2018) Processions, Propaganda and Pixels: Reconstructing the ‘Sacred Way’ between Miletos and Didyma. American Journal of 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ 122(1): 101–43. doi:Ìý
N. Strupler and T.C. Wilkinson (2017) Reproducibility in the field: transparency, version control and collaboration on the Project Panormos Survey. Open 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ 3: 279–304. doi:
T.C. Wilkinson (2014) The Early Transcaucasian phenomenon in structural-systemic perspective: cuisine, craft and economy. ±Ê²¹±ôé´Ç°ù¾±±ð²Ô³Ù 40.2: 203-229. doi:
T.C. Wilkinson (2008) Falling out of an Aircraft: Aerovisualism and the Aerial Photography of J.S.P. Bradford, Visual Anthropology 21:1, pp. 18 – 38. doi:
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