The main focus of Professor Frachetti’s research is on the dynamic strategies of pastoral nomadic societies living in the steppe region, mountains and deserts of Central and Eastern Eurasia during the Bronze Age.

Michael Frachetti
Associate Professor of Archaeology
PhD, University of Pennsylvania
research interests:
- Eurasian Prehistory
- Bronze Age Steppe Pastoralism
- Landscape Archaeology
- Paleo-Environment and Geographic Information Systems
- Ethnographic Nomadism
- Central Asia
contact info:
- Email: frachetti@wustl.edu
- Phone: 314-935-5870
- Fax: 314-935-8535
- Office: McMillan Hall S102 (east tower)
mailing address:
- Washington University
CB 1114
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899