Joseph Tainter

American anthropologist and historian (born 1949)

Joseph Anthony Tainter (born December 8, 1949) is an American anthropologist and historian. Biography. Tainter studied anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1975. As of 2012 he holds a professorship in the Department of Environment and Society at Utah State University. His previous positions include Project Leader of Cultural Heritage Research, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Tainter

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