Christopher Ehret

Christopher Ehret (27 July 1941 – 25 March 2025), an American scholar of African history and African historical linguistics who was particularly known for his efforts to correlate linguistic taxonomy and reconstruction with the archeological record. He was a Professor at UCLA for almost half a century and published many works, including Reconstructing Proto-Afrasian (1995) and Ancient Africa (2023). He authored around seventy articles on a range of historical, linguistic, and anthropological sub