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Christopher Ehret

American historian and linguist

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born: 1941
died: 2025
age at death: 83
known for: historian, linguist, university teacher

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who christopher ehret is

Christopher Paul Ehret was an American scholar of African history and African historical linguistics who was particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archeological record. He was a professor at UCLA for almost half a century and published a great multitude of works, including Reconstructing Proto-Afrasian (1995) and Ancient Africa (2023). He authored around seventy articles on a range of historical, linguistic, and anthropological subjects.

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