Abstract

Dr. Philip L. Kohl is professor of anthropology at Wellesley College. He is a prehistoric archeologist with extensive field experience in both the Near East (including Iran, Afghanistan, and Oman) and the former Soviet Union (including Uzbekistan, Tadzhikistan, and Transcaucasia). He has authored Central Asia: Paleolithic Beginnings to the Iron Age (Paris: Synthèse 14, Editions Recherche sur les Civilisations, 1984) and edited The Bronze Age Civilization of Central Asia: Recent Soviet Discoveries (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1981). He is also editor and co-translator of works by Soviet scholars: M. A. Dandamaev and V. G. Lukonin, Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989); and Igor Mikhailovich Diakonoff, ed., Early Antiquity (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991). Internationally known, Professor Kohl is director of IPARC, International Program for Anthropological Research in the Caucasus. Since 1990, he has led expeditions in southern Georgia and northwestern Armenia, and plans to continue excavations at the Early Bronze and Early Iron Age Horom site in Armenia.

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