Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank), 1953-

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Summary: Arlen F. Chase is a Mesoamerican archaeologist and a faculty member in the Department of Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Houston. Previously, he was a professor in the anthropology department at Pomona College, Claremont, CA and before that the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He previously served a variety of administrative roles at the University of Central Florida over the course of his 32 year stay at that institution. He is noted for his long-term research at the ancient Maya city of Caracol, Belize and for exploring landscape traces of Maya civilization using lidar. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][4][5][6]; Unknown [2]
Born: 1953 [2]; 1953-08-04 [6]
Country: United States [2]
Language: English [3]
Occupation: anthropologist [6]; archaeologist [6]
Profession: Anthropologe [2]
Employer: University of Nevada, Las Vegas [6]; University of Central Florida [6]; University of Pennsylvania [6]; Pomona College [6]
Educated at: University of Pennsylvania [6]
Country of Education: United States [6]
Yale LUX: Entity [6]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Library of Congress; 5. National Library of Korea; 6. Wikidata

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