Professor Dr. Kent Flannery

Biography

Kent Flannery is a Professor Emeritus in Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He specializes in anthropological archaeology with notable contributions to the understanding of sociopolitical evolution and the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture. His fieldwork includes significant projects in Iran, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru, where he explored the origins of agriculture and social structures in early village societies. As the director of the "Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico" project from 1966 to 1980, Flannery co-directed investigations into the origins of social inequality and village life alongside Joyce Marcus. His research interests encompass animal domestication, the rise of hereditary rank, and the evolution of kingdoms in regions of Mexico and the Near East.

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