Kent Flannery

Kent V. Flannery
Born1934 (age 89–90)
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Academic work
DisciplineArchaeologist and anthropologist
Sub-discipline
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan

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. At the University of Chicago he gained his B.A. degree in 1954; the M.A. in 1961 and a Ph.D. in 1964. From 1966 to 1980 he directed project “Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.” dealing with the origins of agriculture, village life, and social inequality in Mexico.[1] He is James B. Griffin Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. In 2005, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.[2]

  1. ^ "Kent Flannery | U-M LSA Anthropology".
  2. ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved May 25, 2021.