Peter S. Wells (born October 9, 1948) is an American anthropologist and author who is Professor of

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at the

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Biography

Peter S. Wells was born in

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, Massachusetts on October 9, 1948. Wells received his B.A. from

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in 1970, and his

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from

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in 1976. Wells is currently Professor of

at the

, where he teaches courses on archaeology. He has led a number of important archaeological excavations in

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. Wells is the author of a number of books on the prehistory of

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. His book ''The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe'' (1999), was awarded the ''Outstanding Title of 1999'' by the Professional and Scholarly Division of the Association of American Publishers. He is an associate editor of the ''

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''.

Selected works

* ''Settlement, Economy, and Cultural Change at the End of the European Iron Age: Excavations at Kelheim in Bavaria'', 1993 * ''The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe'', 1999 * ''Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe'', 2001 * ''The Battle that Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest'', 2003 * ''Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered'', 2008 * ''Image and Response in Early Europe'', 2008 * ''How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times'', 2012

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