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John W. Arthur
John W. Arthur

John W. Arthur

Professor of anthropology

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Arthur has worked in Ethiopia since 1995 conducting ceramic ethnoarchaeological and Holocene archaeological research. He was part of a NSF sponsored research project that discovered a human burial dating to 4,500 years ago and led to the extraction of ancient DNA, sequencing for the first time an African ancient genome. He is an expert in African archaeology, North American archaeology, Native Americans, ceramic technology and Indigenous knowledge of beer.

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Email: arthurj@usf.edu

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