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K. C. Chang (Kwang-chih Chang)
K. C. Chang helped provide more insights in the emergence of Chinese civilization by introducing contemporary western archaeological methodology to the study of ancient Chinese history and translating works of Chinese archaeological discoveries into English. In addition, he established the field of Taiwanese archaeology, promoted multidisciplinary anthropological archaeological research, and urged archaeologists to view East Asian prehistory as a pluralistic whole. -
Kent Vaughn Flannery
Kent Flannery was an American Archaeologist born in 1934 and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1964. His career is focused on agricultural practices of pre-Columbian cultures within Mesoamerica. He served as the director the project “Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.” Through this project he determined that agricultural practices and economic systems were driven by the seasonality of weather patterns in the regions. -
Nelly Robles Garcia
Garcia’s archaeological studies center mostly around pre/post-Columbian indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico. An interesting recent recovery includes victims of a major 16th cen. salmonella outbreak epidemic recovered in Oaxaca, Mexico. She was the 1st Mexican female archaeologist elected in the governing board of the Society for American Archaeology. She forms part of the governing board of the International Centre for the Study of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage in Rome. -
Chapurukha M. Kusimba
Kusimba currently works as a professor at American University after working for 20 years as a curator of African archaeology and ethnology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History and as an anthropology professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He was also a research scientist at the National Museums of Kenya. His research includes Economic Anthropology and History of the Indian Ocean; Evolution of Global Commerce and Inequality; History of Extractive Technologies in Africa. -
Saburo Sugiyama
Sugiyama is known for his research in Mesoamerican social histories, particularly of Teotihuacan, ancient urbanism, iconography, and symbolism; theory and method, particularly cognitive archaeology (ASU). Sugiyama is also known for his current research for detailed and precise 3D map of ancient cities and studies monuments, sacrificial burials, ritual objects to explore their social dimensions, ancient ideologies, and human’s evolving capabilities. -
Anna Prentiss
Anna Prentiss specialized research in the Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, and Arctic regions of North America. One of her most famous expeditions was an excavation in the interior of British Columbia at an archaeological site called Bridge River. This village was occupied around 1800 years ago, and her discoveries through this excavation have contributed lots of information to the socio-economic and political views of the past. She currently works as a professor at the University of Montana.