Name: Guillermo Algaze
Title: Professor, Department of Anthropology

Email: galgaze@ucsd.edu
Campus Address: Social Sciences Building (SSB) 218

Phone: (858) 534-2965

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1986, M.A., University of Chicago, 1979

Field of Expertise:

Algaze is an expert on Near Eastern, Anatolian, and Mesopotamian archaeology, early civilizations, and complex societies.

Regions of Interest: South America, Turkey

Selected Publications:
The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization. University Of Chicago Press; 2nd edition, 2005.


"Initial social complexity in southwestern Asia - The Mesopotamian advantage." Current Anthropology, 42 (2): 199-233, April 2001.