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KC Chang
KC Chang earned his PhD in 1960 on Chinese prehistory. He immediately became a professor at Harvard and researched horticulture, settlement patterns and human interactions in ecosystems, focusing on the Shang Dynasty, Taiwan, and Japan. His work, "The Archaeology of Ancient China", was the first English anthropological work about China. In addition to his research on Asian agriculture, he is known for bringing attention to Asian archaeology. -
Kent Flannery
Flannery graduated as a zoologist, but found his stride in archaeology later on. After getting his degree he ended up becoming a zooarchaeologist. He had a strong belief in making a system to look at archaeology in the most objective way possible. He applied his “systems theory” attempting to eliminate cultural bias. The system breaks down objects into their elemental components. He mostly did his work in central-america, particularly in Mexico, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Belize. -
Anna Prentiss
Anna Prentiss is known for being a professor at the University of Montana in addition to being a co-editor of the scholarly journal, Hunter Gatherer Research. She is also known for participating in and leading excavations in British Columbia, Bear’s Paw Mountain’s (Montana), and Alaska. -
Chap Kusimba
Chap Kusimba received his Ph.d. in 1993. He conducts most of his research near the Indian Ocean and Africa. He researches the archaeology of slavery, specifically in East Africa. archaeology of inequality, and pre-colonial urban cultures of Africa. Kusimba was President of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists from 2010-2012. In 2017, he had a research grant to study Ancient and Contemporary Relations Between China and Africa. -
Saburo Sugiyama
Sugiyama's research focuses on the Mesoamerican social histories, particularly of the Teotihuacan state in Mexico. His work involves using cognitive archaeology to study ancient urbanism, iconography, and symbolism within Teotihuacan, and he has also worked on excavations in Mexico City. He is currently a professor at Arizona State University. -
Veronica Perez Rodriguez
Rodriguez is a current archaeologist who is still in the process of research. She focuses on highland urbanism’s usage of green and agricultural landscapes and the environmental impact and sustainability of this usage. Rodriguez Integrated GIS with ethnography, ethnohistory, soil and geomorphological studies. Her research is still ongoing, however, she is focusing on the pattern of urbanization in hilltop areas and why agriculture was able to flourish in the Mixteca region.