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Henry Wright is an archaeologist and anthropologist whose research has ranged from the Paleolithic to the Islamic periods.
Wright has conducted fieldwork in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kenya, and Madagascar, as well as in eastern North America and the Midwest. Much of his work has been devoted to the cross-cultural study of the origins of state-level, social organizations. He pioneered the use of innovative archaeological methodologies to examine data left by the progressively more complex, central administrative systems that marked the emergence and evolution of the state. This made quantification of the parameters of state formation processes in many early civilizations possible for the first time. He is the co-author and editor of a work entitled An Early Town on the Deh Luran Plain: Excavation at Tepe Farukhabad (1981) and is co-author of Early Settlement and Irrigation on the Deh Luran Plain: Village and Early State Societies in Southwestern Iran (1994).
Biography
Wright is the Albert C. Spaulding Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and curator of Near Eastern archaeology at the University’s Museum of Anthropology. He has been a member of the University of Michigan faculty since 1967.
Wright received an A.B. (1964) from the University of Michigan and an M.A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1967) from the University of Chicago.
Last updated January 1, 2005
Published on July 1, 1993
