Florin Curta
Florin Curta | |
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| Born | January 15, 1965 Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian, American |
| Occupation(s) | Archaeologist, historian |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis | Making an Early Medieval Ethnie: The Case of the Early Slavs (Sixth to Seventh Century A.D.) (1998) |
| Academic work | |
| Notable works | The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region (2001) |
| Notes | |
Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy (2023) | |
Florin Curta (born January 15, 1965) is a Romanian-born American archaeologist and historian who is a professor of medieval history and archaeology at the University of Florida. Curta is known for an unorthodox approach and interpretation of the ethnogenesis of the Early Slavs, a hypothesis published first in The Making of the Slavs: History and Archaeology of the Lower Danube Region (2001), and met with negative criticism.