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Name
  
Kent Flannery

Role
  
Archaeologist

Notable students
  
Richard Blanton


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Education
  
University of Chicago (1964)

Awards
  
Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada

People also search for
  
Joyce Marcus, Richard Blanton, Julian Steward

Books
  
The Creation of Inequality, The Early Mesoamerican Village, Guila Naquitz, Zapotec Civilization: How Urb, The flocks of the Wamani

Kent Vaughn Flannery (born 1934) is a North American archaeologist who has conducted and published extensive research on the pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica, and in particular those of central and southern Mexico. He has also published influential work on origins of agriculture and village life in the Near east, pastoralists in the Andes, and cultural evolution, and many critiques of modern trends in archaeological method, theory, and practice. He is James B. Griffin Professor in the Dept. of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

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Major publications

  • Flannery, Kent V. (1972) The Cultural Evolution of Civilizations. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 3:399-426.
  • Flannery, Kent V. (editor) (1976) The Early Mesoamerican Village. Academic Press, New York.
  • Flannery, Kent V. (1985) Guila Naquitz: Archaic Foraging and Early Agriculture in Oaxaca, Mexico. Academic Press, New York.
  • Flannery, Kent V. (2006) On the Resilience of Anthropological Archaeology. Annual Review of Anthropology 35:1-13.
  • Flannery, Kent V. and Joyce Marcus (editors) (1983) The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations. Academic Press, New York.
  • Flannery, Kent V. and Joyce Marcus (1994) Early Formative Pottery in the Valley of Oaxaca. Memoirs vol. 27. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
  • Flannery, Kent V. and Joyce Marcus (2005) Excavations at San José Mogote 1: The Household Archaeology. Memoirs vol. 40. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
  • Marcus, Joyce and Kent V. Flannery (1996) Zapotec Civilization: How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley. Thames and Hudson, New York.

    • Fiction

  • Flannery, Kent V. "The Golden Marshalltown: A Parable for the Archeology of the 1980s." American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 84, No. 2 (Jun., 1982)

    • References

    Kent V. Flannery Wikipedia
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