Russell Thornton | |
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Born | 20 February 1942 |
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Discipline | anthropology |
Institutions | University of California at Los Angeles |
Main interests | population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas |
Russell Thornton (born 20 February 1942) is a Cherokee-American anthropologist and professor of anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles,who is known for his studies of the population history of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. [1] [2] [3]
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