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David R. Harris (geographer)

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60 Years of Berkeley Geography 1923–1983: Bio-bibliographies of 159 PhD's granted by the University of California, Berkeley, since the establishment of a doctoral program in geography in 1923
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in Geography with a thesis entitled "Water resources and land use in Tunisia". In 1963, he was awarded a PhD from the Geography Department at
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entitled "Plants, animals, and man in the Outer Leeward Islands, West Indies. An ecological study of Antigua, Barbuda, and Anguilla".
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In 1989 Harris and a colleague were invited to lead the archaeological investigations of the environment at the central Asian
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During the course of his academic career Harris has also held various visiting fellowships, including at the
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Harris continued as Director until his own retirement from the position in 1996, and was succeeded by
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Harris was born on 14 December 1930 in London, England. As an undergraduate Harris attended
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Harris has conducted research investigations in many parts of the world, including
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who retired in 1989. The postgraduate academic research journal
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Between 1958 and 1964, Harris lectured in geography at
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and academic, well known for his detailed work on the
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Berkeley: 150:In 1964 Harris took up a position as 711:Alumni of University College, Oxford 102: 13: 249:In 1972 he was presented with the 192:University of California, Berkeley 145:University of California, Berkeley 135:he was a visiting lecturer at the 118: 88:University of California, Berkeley 14: 747: 668: 523:Harris, David (September 1997). 311:Martin Jones (17 January 2014). 539:Council for British Archaeology 731:Fellows of the British Academy 677:, UCL Institute of Archaeology 446: 416: 407: 330: 304: 210:, Africa, Central America and 184:Australian National University 1: 612:"DAVID R. HARRIS (PhD, 1963)" 459: 263:Fellow of the British Academy 111:from 1949 to 1950 as part of 62:, and retained a position as 18:David R. Harris (sociologist) 237:settlement by at least 6000 7: 391:. Debrett's. 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David R. Harris (sociologist)
FSA
FBA
geographer
anthropologist
archaeologist
origins of agriculture
domestication
Institute of Archaeology
University College London
Professor Emeritus
University College, Oxford
Geography
M.Litt.
University of California, Berkeley
dissertation
Royal Air Force
National Service
Queen Mary College
University of London
academic year
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque
University of California, Berkeley
Reader
University College London
John Davies Evans
Papers from the Institute of Archaeology
Peter Ucko
University of Toronto

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