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Janine Gasco

PROFESSOR

Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1987

Office: A210 FOWLER
Phone: 68934
Fax: 310-206-4723

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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Position and Home Institution

Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Research Interests

Historical Anthropology of Latin America; Ethnohistory; Mesoamerican Prehistory; Historical Archaeology; Ethnobotany; Historical Demography; Economic Anthropology; Ethnoecology; History of Native America

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