Lothar von Falkenhausen

Lothar von Falkenhausen (born June 6, 1959) is a German-American archaeologist and art historian specializing in the Chinese Bronze Age. After receiving a PhD in anthropology at Harvard, he briefly taught at Stanford and the University of California, Riverside, before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) in 1993, where he has remained since. He has served in a number of field research roles in China, as well as an instructor at the International Archaeological Field School at the Neolithic Yangguanzhai site.

He was appointed by Barack Obama to an anti–illicit antiquities trade advisory committee in 2012. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019, which he used to fund a monograph of the economic history of China prior to the Qin dynasty. In addition to his work at UCLA, he serves as a Changjiang Professor at Xibei University and edits the Journal of East Asian Archaeology.