Gil Stein

Gil Stein (born January 9, 1956 ) is an American archaeologist and since 2002 director of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago .

Life

Stein studied at Yale University , among others , where he completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1978 with summa cum laude and several awards. He then received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988 . It was during this time Graduate Fellow of the National Science Foundation and took part of the Fulbright program in an exchange with Turkey instead, while he was in Arizona , New Mexico , but since 1981 in Turkey and in Syria at several excavations and surveys participated . After completing his doctorate, he held a professorship in anthropology at Northwestern University before joining the University of Chicago in 2002.

Research activity

Stein's research focuses on the earliest civilizations of the Ancient Near East . From 1992 to 1997, he directed the excavations in the late Chalcolithic settlement of Hacınebi in Turkey. He is currently co-director of a Syrian-American joint project that began in 2008 at the early-middle Chalcolithic proto-urban settlement Tell Zeidan in northern Syria.

Web links

• Homepage at the University of Chicago (English)