David R. Harris
Emeritus Professor of Human Environment
University College London

'the farther reaches of human time': Retrospect on Carl Sauer as Prehistorian
Wednesday, October 3, 2001 - 4:10 p.m.
Toll Room, Alumni House, University of California, Berkeley

David R. Harris is a distinguished geographer, anthropologist, and archaeologist. His research interests include plant and animal domestication and the origins and spread of agriculture. He has extensively studied the ecology and evolution of agricultural and other subsistence systems in several parts of the world, including New Guinea and the Torres Strait, Africa, Central America and Eurasia. He has also collaborated to the Turkmenistan project investigating the beginnings of agriculture and sedentary settlement in western Central Asia.

David. R. Harris received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. He has taught at the Queen Mary College of the University of London, the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque, the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1980, he has held the position of Professor and Head of Department of Human Environment at the Institute of Archaeology of the University College London. Harris' numerous awards and prizes include the 1972 Back Award of the Royal Geographical Society for contributions to biogeography, especially of Middle America.

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