Peter S. Wells

Peter S. Wells was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 9, 1948.[1][2] Wells received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1970, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976.[1][2]

Wells is currently Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches courses on archaeology.[3][4] He has led a number of important archaeological excavations in Germany. Wells is the author of a number of books on the prehistory of Europe. His book The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe (1999), was awarded the Outstanding Title of 1999 by the Professional and Scholarly Division of the Association of American Publishers.[5] He is an associate editor of the Journal of Indo-European Studies.

• Settlement, Economy, and Cultural Change at the End of the European Iron Age: Excavations at Kelheim in Bavaria, 1993
• The Barbarians Speak: How the Conquered Peoples Shaped Roman Europe, 1999
• Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians: Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe, 2001
• The Battle that Stopped Rome: Emperor Augustus, Arminius, and the Slaughter of the Legions in the Teutoburg Forest, 2003
• Barbarians to Angels: The Dark Ages Reconsidered, 2008
• Image and Response in Early Europe, 2008
• How Ancient Europeans Saw the World: Vision, Patterns, and the Shaping of the Mind in Prehistoric Times, 2012