Research Scientist
About
Laura Motta is a paleoethnobotanist whose present research focuses on Iron Age Italy and the Bronze Age Carpathian Basin. She is particularly interested in exploring social complexity through food production/redistribution patterns and in the early phases of the first cities. Her current fieldwork is at the site of the Archaic city of Gabii, near Rome, and at Sant’Omobono in Rome.
Fields of study: environmental archaeology, late prehistory, first millennium BCE Italy, complex societies and state formation processes, paleoethnobotany
