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James Sackett

PROFESSOR EMERITUS

Ph.D., Harvard University, 1965

Office: Fowler A419
Phone: (310) 825-9644
Fax: 310-206-4723
E-mail: jsackett@ucla.edu

Mailing Address:

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
308 Charles E Young Dr. North
A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1510

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UCLA Appointments

Director, CIOA European Laboratory

Research Interests

Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) archaeology of France, history and theory of archaeology

Research Summary

My biggest field effort was at the site of Solvieux, which is without rival for size and complexity in Western Europe. From 1967 through 1974, Solvieux was intensively researched by a joint UCLA-University of Bordeaux project. In all, 2500 cubic meters of deposit were excavated, producing a kilometer of stratigraphic sections, 2000 square meters of horizontally exposed occupation surface, and some 5000 retouched stone tools representing eleven distinct archaeological levels.

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Cotsen Institute of Archaeology European Laboratory

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