Claudia Glatz

Claudia Glatz is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. Her 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 the author of numerous journal articles on Bronze Age Anatolia as well as the monograph The Making of Empire in Bronze Age Anatolia (CUP, 2020). She is currently working on a monograph on the long-term history of mountain societies with the working title Wild Mountains – A Human History.