Patrick Hunt

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LOCATION: Stanford, California, United States

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BIOGRAPHY

Patrick Hunt (Ph.D., Institute of Archaeology, UCL, University of London, 1991) is an archaeologist and historian who has taught at Stanford University since 1993. National Geographic Society’s Expedition Council sponsored his Hannibal Expedition in 2007–08. He was Director of the Stanford Alpine Archaeology Project from 1994 to 2012 and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (London) in 1989. Hunt is also a National Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America and an Explorer for National Geographic Learning.

Hunt’s articles on a range of topics, including Hannibal and Carthage, can be found in Journal of Roman Archaeology, Studia Phoenicia, World Archaeology, and Wiley-Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History, among others. He has authored 15 books including Alpine Archaeology (2007), Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History (2007), and Hannibal (2017).

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Articles

Scipio Africanus

Scipio Africanus was a Roman general noted for his victory over the Carthaginian leader Hannibal in the great Battle of Zama (202 bce), ending the Second Punic War. For his victory he won the surname Africanus (201 bce). Publius Cornelius Scipio was born into one of the great patrician families in…

Battle of Zama

Hannibal

Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus

Battle of the Trebbia River

Gaius Claudius Nero

Publications (3)

Alpine Archaeology

By Patrick Hunt

Patrick Hunt¿s Alpine Archaeology is born out of more than a decade of widespread high altitude archaeological field research in the Alps. The observations in this research study were made over time in a number of different field seasons and therefore, gradually built up over the years. The author conducted this study while directing the Stanford Alpine Archaeological Project.Alpine archaeology is a specialized field where normal archaeological principles such as stratigraphy, pedology,...

Hannibal

By Patrick N Hunt

This Authoritative Biography Brings To Life One Of The Great Commanders Of The Ancient World, Hannibal Barca Of Carthage, Who Crossed The Alps With His War Elephants To Invade Italy And Brought Rome To Its Knees. In The Third Century Bce, Carthage Was The Great Mercantile Power Of The Mediterranean World, With Colonies From Spain To Sicily. When The Increasingly Powerful Roman Republic Challenged Carthage For Primacy In The Mediterranean, Carthage's Leading General, Hannibal, Took The Fight To Rome....

Ten Discoveries That Rewrote History

By Patrick Hunt