Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology; Albert Clanton Spaulding Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology
hwright@umich.eduOffice Information:
Suite 3010 School of Education Bldg (Rm 3015)
610 E. University Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1259
Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
Education/Degree:
Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1967; M.A., University of Chicago, 1965; B.A., University of Michigan, 1964
Highlighted Work and Publications
47. Elamite and Achaemenid Settlement on the Deh Luran Plain: Towns and Villages of the Early Empires in Southwestern Iran
Henry T. Wright, James A. Neely (editors)
The Deh Luran Plain, nestled in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains close to the modern border between Iraq and Iran, had a long and rich prehistory, beginning with the local development of villages dependent upon rainfall farming and herding in the 8th millennium B.C. These developed into networks of villages and small centers exploiting irrigation and agriculture, and these became involved in the networks of exchange developing around the first state polities and urban societies during the 9th millennium B.C. This volume continues the account of the plain from the later 3rd millennium B.C...
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43. Early State Formation in Central Madagascar: An Archaeological Survey of Western Avaradrano
Henry T. Wright (editor)
Distant Madagascar, the island at the end of the world, has many lessons to teach. The ancestors of the Malagasy people established themselves at least 1500 years ago. Again and again since their arrival, the Malagasy have created new kinds of political communities. This study concerns the indigenous state of Imerina in the central highlands. Archaeological survey and excavations in the portion of Imerina called western Avaradrano provide detailed information on 258 archaeological sites in an area covering 120 sq km north of modern Antananarivo. The first pioneering villages, established by ...
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