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Kent Flannery
Known for work in Central and South Mexico, and introducing systems theory in archaeology. Systems theory looks at society as a complex combination of varying elements (such as individual people and their beliefs. -
KC Chang
KC Chang was a professor of Archeology at Harvard who is known for having brought Chinese prehistorical theories and Taiwanese archeology to English audiences. He was born in 1931 and began his archeological research in Taiwan in 1964. His best-known work is on the Shang Dynasty in China. He died in 2001. -
Anna Prentiss
Anna is known for her work in British Columbia, especially her work that concerns the excavation of Housepit 54, “a long-lived pithouse occupied briefly during the Fur Trade period and most intensively at dates spanning approximately 1000-1500 years ago.” This work focuses in large part on socio-economic and political changes that took place during this time period. -
Chap Kusimba
Director, American University Anthropological Studies Research Program in Kenya, 2013-Present. Kusimba conducted research on the Swahili people of the east African coast. He focused
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Saburo Sugiyama
Saburo Sugiyama does a lot of work studying ancient urbanism and iconography, analyzing the sociocultural relevance of monuments, city layouts, rituals, utilizing methods of cognitive archaeology. He does work reconstructing detailed 3D maps of ancient cities, monuments, and burial sites, and is the co-director of the Moon Pyramid Project, a major excavation of the Moon temple in Teotihuacán, the second largest pyramid there after the Sun temple.
