Lothar von Falkenhausen is a German-American sinologist, archaeologist, and art historian specializing in the Chinese Bronze Age. After receiving a PhD in anthropology at Harvard, he briefly taught at Stanford and the University of California, Riverside, before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) in 1993, where he has remained since. He has served in a number of field research roles in China, as well as an instructor at the International Archaeological Field School at the Neolithic Yangguanzhai site.
- Occupation
- archaeologist, art historian, sinologist, university teacher
- Born
- 1959
