Prof Claudia Glatz

Claudia Glatz is an archaeologist whose research revolves around how human societies organise themselves, especially how political formations such as states and empires develop, are experienced, and resisted. Mountains and mountain societies present particularly interesting socio-ecological laboratories in this regard. To reveal the long-term histories of upland regions and their human inhabitants, Claudia has carried out archaeological surveys and excavations in the Pontic mountains of Türkiye and in the western Zagros piedmonts of north-east Iraq. She is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow and Wild Mountains will be her first book for the trade.