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Archaeologists are, by necessity, masters of inference. From the meanest, most innocuous of things-discarded oyster shells, broken pots, the subtle bands of color and texture in an excavation wall—we try to re-create an entire world and its inhabitants.

Tom Dillehay

Tom Dillehay

Tom Dillehay

Born: July 23, 1947 (age 79)

Bio: Tom Dillehay is an American anthropologist who is the Rebecca Webb Wilson University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Culture and Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University.

Known for:

The Settlement of the Americas (2000)
Monuments, Empires, and Resistance (2007)
Andean Civilizations (2000)

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