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PIZZA TALK - "EMPIRE WITHOUT A VOICE"

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Brett Kaufmann, PhD Candidate-UCLA Archaeology Interdepartmental Graduate Program

What Pizza Talk
When January 30, 2013
from 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
Where Fowler Museum Building, Room A222
Contact Name Ellen Hsieh
Contact Email
Contact Phone 310-825-4169
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"Empire Without a Voice:  Phoenician Metallurgy and Imperial Strategy at Carthage"

 

Brett Kaufman is a Ph.D. candidate at UCLA’s Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Interdepartmental Graduate Program. His current research, funded by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and first published in the peer-reviewed journal Archaeometry, quantifies adaptive mechanisms to environmental change adopted by populations in North Africa and the Ancient Near East.

Brett has co-directed, supervised, and participated in excavations in Israel, Italy, and Upstate New York. He currently serves as Assistant Editor of the Cotsen Institute’s Backdirt Annual Review.

Brett Kaufmann



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