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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

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:

For full list of publications and past project involvement, see:
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Job Titles

Senior Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

General Info

Not available for consultancy
Research Expertise / Fields of study: 
Material Culture
Socio-Politics of the Past
Computational and Quantitative 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ
Field Methods
Environmental 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ, Geoarchaeology, and Landscape studies

Contact Details

tcw50 [a] cam.ac.uk
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB2 3ER

Affiliations

Person keywords: 
Computational 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ
Spatial 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ
Survey
Mediterranean
Eurasia
Subjects: 
Assyriology and Mesopotamian 91̽»¨ÊÓÆµ
Themes: 
Science, Technology and Innovation
Environment, Landscapes and Settlement
Geographical areas: 
Central Asia
Mediterranean
Mesopotamia and the Near East
Periods of interest: 
Copper/Bronze Age
Iron Age