Fringe Archaeology

Christopher DeCorse is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Syracuse University. He is an archaeologist interested in the cultural entanglements of the early modern world, material culture studies, and general anthropology. Dr. DeCorse has excavated sites in the United States and the Caribbean, but his primary research is on the archaeology, history, and ethnography of sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author or coauthor of Anthropology: A Global Perspective; Anthropology: The Basics; In the Beginning: An Introduction to Archaeology; The Record of the Past: An Introduction to Archaeology and Physical Anthropology; and, forthcoming, Buried Cities, Lost Peoples. Dr. DeCorse holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.