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| nationality = Cuban
| residence = [[San Diego, California]]
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| citizenship = United States
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| thesis_title =Mesopotamian expansion and its consequences: informal empire in the late fourth millennium B.C.
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| known_for = A 2003 MacArthur "Genius" Award.
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| thesis_year = 1986
| doctoral_advisors = [[Robert McCormick Adams Jr.|Robert M. Adams]]<br>Helene Juliet Kantor<br>McGuire Gibson
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'''Guillermo Algaze''' (born November 24, 1954) is a recipient of a 2003 [[MacArthur Award]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Guillermo Algaze|url=http://www.macfound.org/fellows/703/|publisher=MacArthur Foundation|accessdate=24 September 2014}}</ref>
'''Guillermo Algaze''' (born November 24, 1954) is a Cuban-born American anthropologist and recipient of a 2003 [[MacArthur Award]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Guillermo Algaze|url=http://www.macfound.org/fellows/703/|publisher=MacArthur Foundation|access-date=24 September 2014}}</ref>
Algaze is the chair of the [[anthropology]] department at University of California, San Diego, and project director of the Titris Hoyuk excavation in southern Turkey.<ref>http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/facultyexperts/details.asp?exp=16802</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/25/science/trade-or-colonialism-ruins-may-give-answer.html |publisher=New York Times |date=May 25, 1993 |author=John Noble Wilford |title=Trade or Colonialism? Ruins May Give Answer }}</ref><ref name=alter>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/23/science/ruins-alter-ideas-of-how-civilization-spread.html |date=May 23, 2000 |author=John Noble Wilford |title=Ruins Alter Ideas Of How Civilisation Spread |publisher=New York Times}}</ref>
Algaze is a former chair of the [[anthropology]] department at University of California, San Diego, and project director of the [[Titris Hoyuk]] excavation in southern Turkey.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/facultyexperts/details.asp?exp=16802 |title=Faculty Experts |access-date=2009-12-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100613072228/http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/facultyexperts/details.asp?exp=16802 |archive-date=2010-06-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/25/science/trade-or-colonialism-ruins-may-give-answer.html |work=New York Times |date=May 25, 1993 |author=John Noble Wilford |title=Trade or Colonialism? Ruins May Give Answer }}</ref><ref name=alter>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/23/science/ruins-alter-ideas-of-how-civilization-spread.html |date=May 23, 2000 |author=John Noble Wilford |title=Ruins Alter Ideas Of How Civilisation Spread |work=New York Times}}</ref>


==Life and education==
==Life and education==
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==Academic work==
==Academic work==
Algaze's archaeological interests have mostly been around Mesopotamian history and culture.<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Wilford |title=Where war was waged 5,500 years ago |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/world/africa/16iht-battle.html |publisher=New York Times |date=2005-12-16 |accessdate=2009-12-31}}</ref><ref>Akkermans 2003, p. 103</ref> His work has contributed to a vast amount of information in relation to Mesopotamia.<ref>Matthews 2003, pp. 114-115</ref> In the 1990s, Algaze was a major proponent of an anthropological theory on the spread of civilisation from the Euphrates valley area and ancient Mesopotamia, arguing that colonial expansion from south to north (from the area that is currently southern Iraq) was responsible for the establishment of city-states in northern Iraq and Syria and southeastern Turkey. Following discoveries in the new millennium, Algaze says he has been "eating a lot of crow", acknowledging that evidence suggests societies in the northern area emerged simultaneously and independently of the Mesopotamian expansion.<ref name=alter /><ref name=tin>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/04/science/enduring-mystery-solved-as-tin-is-found-in-turkey.html |publisher=New York Times |date=January 4, 1994 |title=Enduring Mystery Solved as Tin Is Found in Turkey |author=John Noble Wilford }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/21/MNGRTNK9BU1.DTL |date=January 21, 2007 |author=John Noble Wilford |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |title=In Syria, ruins reveal early city's violent end: Archaeologists find Tell Hamoukar fell in 3500 B.C. battle}}</ref>
Algaze's archaeological interests have mostly been around Mesopotamian history and culture.<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Wilford |title=Where war was waged 5,500 years ago |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/world/africa/16iht-battle.html |work=New York Times |date=2005-12-16 |access-date=2009-12-31}}</ref><ref>Akkermans 2003, p. 103</ref> His work has contributed to a vast amount of information in relation to Mesopotamia.<ref>Matthews 2003, pp. 114-115</ref> In the 1990s, Algaze was a major proponent of an anthropological theory on the spread of civilisation from the Euphrates valley area and ancient Mesopotamia, arguing that colonial expansion from south to north (from the area that is currently southern Iraq) was responsible for the establishment of city-states in northern Iraq and Syria and southeastern Turkey. Following discoveries in the new millennium, Algaze says he has been "eating a lot of crow", acknowledging that evidence suggests societies in the northern area emerged simultaneously and independently of the Mesopotamian expansion.<ref name=alter /><ref name=tin>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/01/04/science/enduring-mystery-solved-as-tin-is-found-in-turkey.html |work=New York Times |date=January 4, 1994 |title=Enduring Mystery Solved as Tin Is Found in Turkey |author=John Noble Wilford }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/21/MNGRTNK9BU1.DTL |date=January 21, 2007 |author=John Noble Wilford |publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |title=In Syria, ruins reveal early city's violent end: Archaeologists find Tell Hamoukar fell in 3500 B.C. battle}}</ref>


In 2003 he received the MacArthur Genius Award, for his work studying the imperialism and colonialism of ancient civilizations, particularly the [[Uruk]] expansion in ancient [[Mesopotamia]].<ref name=ucsdnews>{{cite web |url=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/soc/Algaze.htm |publisher=University of California, San Diego |date=October 5, 2003 |title=$500,000 "GENIUS" AWARD GOES TO UCSD ANTHROPOLOGIST GUILLERMO ALGAZE }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/us/24-win-macarthur-genius-awards-of-500000.html |title=24 Win MacArthur 'Genius Awards' of $500,000 |date=October 5, 2003 |author= Felicia R. Lee|publisher=New York Times}}</ref>
In 2003 he received the MacArthur Genius Award, for his work studying the imperialism and colonialism of ancient civilizations, particularly the [[Uruk]] expansion in ancient [[Mesopotamia]].<ref name=ucsdnews>{{cite web |url=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/soc/Algaze.htm |publisher=University of California, San Diego |date=October 5, 2003 |title=$500,000 "GENIUS" AWARD GOES TO UCSD ANTHROPOLOGIST GUILLERMO ALGAZE }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/us/24-win-macarthur-genius-awards-of-500000.html |title=24 Win MacArthur 'Genius Awards' of $500,000 |date=October 5, 2003 |author= Felicia R. Lee|work=New York Times}}</ref>


==List of works==
==List of works==
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{{Expand list|date=February 2011}}
* {{cite book |last=Algaze |first=Guillermo|date=November 2008 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |title=Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape |ISBN=978-0-226-01377-0 |url=http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226013770 }}
* {{cite book |last=Algaze |first=Guillermo|date=November 2008 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |title=[[Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization|Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape]] |isbn=978-0-226-01377-0 |url= }}
* {{cite book |last=Algaze |first=Guillermo |date=June 2005 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |title=The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization, Second Edition |ISBN=978-0-226-01382-4 |url=http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226013824 }}
* {{cite book |last=Algaze |first=Guillermo |date=June 2005 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |title=The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization, Second Edition |isbn=978-0-226-01382-4 |url=http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?isbn=9780226013824 }}


==References==
==References==
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==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |title=The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c. 16,000-300 BC) |last1=Akkermans |first1=Peter M. M. G. |authorlink= |last2=Schwartz |first2=Glenn M. |year=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-79666-0}}
* {{cite book |title=The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c. 16,000-300 BC) |last1=Akkermans |first1=Peter M. M. G. |last2=Schwartz |first2=Glenn M. |year=2003 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-79666-0}}
* {{cite book |title=The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches |last=Matthews |first=Roger |year=2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-25316-0}}
* {{cite book |title=The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches |last=Matthews |first=Roger |year=2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-415-25316-0}}


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Latest revision as of 15:33, 29 February 2024

Guillermo Algaze
Born (1954-11-24) November 24, 1954 (age 69)
Havana, Cuba
NationalityCuban
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materUniversity of Puerto Rico;
University of Chicago
Known forA 2003 MacArthur "Genius" Award.
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology
ThesisMesopotamian expansion and its consequences: informal empire in the late fourth millennium B.C. (1986)
Doctoral advisorsRobert M. Adams
Helene Juliet Kantor
McGuire Gibson

Guillermo Algaze (born November 24, 1954) is a Cuban-born American anthropologist and recipient of a 2003 MacArthur Award,[1] Algaze is a former chair of the anthropology department at University of California, San Diego, and project director of the Titris Hoyuk excavation in southern Turkey.[2][3][4]

Life and education[edit]

Algaze was born on November 24, 1954, in Havana, Cuba, and was raised in Puerto Rico. He graduated from the University of Puerto Rico in 1976. Algaze later moved to the continental United States, and became a citizen. In 1986, he earned his doctorate from the University of Chicago. He joined the University of California, San Diego faculty in 1990, he taught there as a professor for several years and currently serves as the chair of the anthropology department.[5]

Academic work[edit]

Algaze's archaeological interests have mostly been around Mesopotamian history and culture.[6][7] His work has contributed to a vast amount of information in relation to Mesopotamia.[8] In the 1990s, Algaze was a major proponent of an anthropological theory on the spread of civilisation from the Euphrates valley area and ancient Mesopotamia, arguing that colonial expansion from south to north (from the area that is currently southern Iraq) was responsible for the establishment of city-states in northern Iraq and Syria and southeastern Turkey. Following discoveries in the new millennium, Algaze says he has been "eating a lot of crow", acknowledging that evidence suggests societies in the northern area emerged simultaneously and independently of the Mesopotamian expansion.[4][9][10]

In 2003 he received the MacArthur Genius Award, for his work studying the imperialism and colonialism of ancient civilizations, particularly the Uruk expansion in ancient Mesopotamia.[5][11]

List of works[edit]

  • Algaze, Guillermo (November 2008). Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization: The Evolution of an Urban Landscape. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-01377-0.
  • Algaze, Guillermo (June 2005). The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization, Second Edition. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-01382-4.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Guillermo Algaze". MacArthur Foundation. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Faculty Experts". Archived from the original on 2010-06-13. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
  3. ^ John Noble Wilford (May 25, 1993). "Trade or Colonialism? Ruins May Give Answer". New York Times.
  4. ^ a b John Noble Wilford (May 23, 2000). "Ruins Alter Ideas Of How Civilisation Spread". New York Times.
  5. ^ a b "$500,000 "GENIUS" AWARD GOES TO UCSD ANTHROPOLOGIST GUILLERMO ALGAZE". University of California, San Diego. October 5, 2003.
  6. ^ Wilford, John (2005-12-16). "Where war was waged 5,500 years ago". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-12-31.
  7. ^ Akkermans 2003, p. 103
  8. ^ Matthews 2003, pp. 114-115
  9. ^ John Noble Wilford (January 4, 1994). "Enduring Mystery Solved as Tin Is Found in Turkey". New York Times.
  10. ^ John Noble Wilford (January 21, 2007). "In Syria, ruins reveal early city's violent end: Archaeologists find Tell Hamoukar fell in 3500 B.C. battle". San Francisco Chronicle.
  11. ^ Felicia R. Lee (October 5, 2003). "24 Win MacArthur 'Genius Awards' of $500,000". New York Times.

Bibliography[edit]

  • Akkermans, Peter M. M. G.; Schwartz, Glenn M. (2003). The Archaeology of Syria: From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c. 16,000-300 BC). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-79666-0.
  • Matthews, Roger (2003). The Archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and Approaches. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-25316-0.
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