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Daniel Potts presents The First Charter of Human Rights?

Public Event: The First Charter of Human Rights? Cyrus the Great's Cylinder in Contemporary and Historical Perspective

3/25/2014
4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Haldeman 41 (Kreindler Conference Hall)
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Professor Potts specializes in the study of Iran, Mesopotamia and the Arabian Peninsula, as well as relations between these regions and their neighbors. Chronologically his work is wide-ranging - from the Neolithic to late antiquity, but his main focus is on the transition from pre-history to the Bronze Age in Mesopotamia and Iran, especially the 3rd millennium BCE. He has conducted field excavation projects in Iran, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates. While at Dartmouth as a Montgomery Fellow, Professor Potts will teach Anthropology 12.2 The Archaeology of the Ancient Near East in the 10A.

For more information, contact:
Ellen Henderson
ellen.henderson@dartmouth.edu
646-9215
Permanent URL to this event: https://montgomery.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=28696

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