Christopher Ehret

6.3k citations
52 papers · 1.5k · 1 hit paper · h-index 21

Impact in

  • Archeology top 0.5%
    • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
    • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
    • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

Papers in

    • Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis 13
    • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies 4
    • African history and culture studies 8
    • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories 5

Christopher Ehret

46 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Oral Tradition as History 1986 · 210 citations
2100+13+26Years since publication50100150200

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Christopher Ehret
Comparison fields: 5 of 115
  • Archeology 252
  • Anthropology 515
  • Linguistics and Language 152
  • Cultural Studies 172
  • Archeology 200
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Oral Tradition as History
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1986210
2 2005150
3 2009112
4 200095
5 200390
6 200174
7 197973
8 198467
9 199947
10 197946
11 196746
12
Ethiopians and East Africans : the problem of contacts
197442
13
Reconstructing Proto-Afroasiatic (Proto-Afrasian): Vowels, Tone, Consonants, and Vocabulary
199541
14
A Historical-Comparative Reconstruction of Nilo-Saharan
200135
15 199231
16 198827
17 197126
18 199926
19
Patterns of Bantu and Central Sudanic Settlement in Central and Southern Africa (ca. 1000 BC-500 AD)
197325
20 197425

About Christopher Ehret

Christopher Ehret is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Anthropology, Political Science and International Relations, Archeology and Archeology, having authored 52 papers that have together received 1.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis (13 papers), African history and culture analysis (11 papers), Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (10 papers), African history and culture studies (8 papers), Ancient Near East History (7 papers), Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (5 papers), Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (5 papers) and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Archeology (252 citations), Anthropology (515 citations), Linguistics and Language (152 citations), Cultural Studies (172 citations) and Archeology (200 citations). Christopher Ehret has collaborated with scholars based in United States, South Africa and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Jan Vansina, Roland Oliver, David W. Phillipson, Connie J. Mulligan, Andrew Kitchen, Randall L. Pouwels, Merrick Posnansky, Philip D. Curtin, Elizabeth T Wood and Howard L. McLeod. Their work appears in journals such as The International Journal of African Historical Studies, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, The Journal of African History, The American Historical Review and African Archaeological Review.

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