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Professor Ian Morris FBA

Long-term world history; comparative archaeology; the evolution of societies; quantitative history; history & archaeology of ancient Greece.
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2012
Subjects
Archaeology, Classics
Sections
Archaeology
Website
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/classics/cgi-bin/web/people/faculty/ian-morris

Current post

Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics, Stanford University

Publications

Why the West Rules--For Now: The Patterns of History and What they Reveal About the Future 2010

The Measure of Civilization: How Social Development Decides the Fate of Nations 2013

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Dr John Curtis FBA

Archaeology Archaeology of the Ancient Near East Central and Inner Asia

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Professor John Gowlett FBA

The evolution of early human advanced capabilities; origins and development of design form and proportion in artefacts; investigation of early hominin fire use and its effects

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Dr Alison Sheridan FBA

Prehistorian, focusing on the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age of Britain and Ireland and specialising in ceramics, stone axeheads and jewellery of jet and jet-like materials, gold, amber and faience

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