Patrick Hunt

Patrick Hunt is a global archaeologist who teaches at Stanford University and has been the Director of the Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project since 1994. He also directs the National Geographic's Society's Hannibal Expedition as the recipient of an Expedition Council Grant for 2007-2008. Hunt has been an elected Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society in London since 1989 and earned his Ph.D. at the Institute of Archeaology, UCL, University of London, in 1991. His research has been featured in Archaeology magazine and various international history and science magazines and on the History Channel. He has written over one hundred articles and been published in over forty journals and encyclopedias and gives lectures on archaeology all around the world. He lives in the San Francisco peninsula in Northern California with his wife and spends several months a year abroad pursuing historical and archaeological research. [from: Ten Discoveries that Rewrote History (2007)]