Kent Flannery
American archaeologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kent Vaughn Flannery 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. 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.
Kent Flannery's Published Works
Published Works
- The Cultural Evolution of Civilizations (1972) (827)
- Origins and ecological effects of early domestication in Iran and the Near East. (1969) (497)
- The earliest archaeological maize (Zea mays L.) from highland Mexico: new accelerator mass spectrometry dates and their implications. (2001) (383)
- The Origins of Agriculture (1973) (369)
- The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire (2012) (280)
- Explaining Civilization. (Book Reviews: Zapotec Civilization. How Urban Society Evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley.) (1996) (271)
- The Cloud People: Divergent Evolution of The Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations (1983) (242)
- The Origins of the Village Revisited: From Nuclear to Extended Households (2002) (211)
- Process and Agency in Early State Formation (1999) (182)
- The Golden Marshalltown: A Parable for the Archeology of the 1980s (1982) (160)
- Formative Mexican Chiefdoms and the Myth of the "Mother Culture" (2000) (155)
- The Ecology of Early Food Production in Mesopotamia: Prehistoric farmers and herders exploited a series of adjacent but contrasting climatic zones. (1965) (153)
- The Prehistory of Southwestern Iran: A Preliminary Report (1968) (138)
- Climate change and the integrity of science. (2010) (137)
- Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Deh Luran Plain: An Early Village Sequence from Khuzistan, Iran (1970) (127)
- The Flocks of the Wamani: A Study of Llama Herders on the Punas of Ayacucho, Peru (1989) (109)
- The ancient mind: Ancient Zapotec ritual and religion: an application of the direct historical approach (1994) (93)
- Early Formative Pottery Of The Valley Of Oaxaca (1994) (89)
- The origin of war: New 14C dates from ancient Mexico (2003) (87)
- Petrographic evidence shows that pottery exchange between the Olmec and their neighbors was two-way. (2005) (87)
- Formative Oaxaca and the Zapotec Cosmos (1976) (81)
- The administration of rural production in an early Mesopotamian town (1969) (78)
- Ecological Theory and Cultural Evolution in the Valley of Oaxaca [and Comments and Reply] (1988) (75)
- The coevolution of ritual and society: New 14C dates from ancient Mexico (2004) (68)
- Precolumbian use of chili peppers in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico (2007) (67)
- Microenvironments and Mesoamerican Prehistory. (1964) (66)
- Archeological Report. (Book Reviews: Early Cultures and Human Ecology in South Coastal Guatemala) (1967) (59)
- Implications of new petrographic analysis for the Olmec "mother culture" model. (2005) (56)
- Maya subsistence: studies in memory of Dennis E. Puleston (1983) (51)
- Excavation at San José Mogote 1: The Household Archaeology (2005) (51)
- On the Logic of Archaeological Inference: Early Formative Pottery and the Evolution of Mesoamerican Societies (2006) (51)
- Guilá Naquitz (2021) (46)
- Predicting Similarity in Material Culture among New Guinea Villages from Propinquity and Language: A Log-linear Approach [and Comments and Reply] (1995) (34)
- Early Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in Deh Luran, Iran (1965) (31)
- Excavations at San José Mogote 2: The Cognitive Archaeology (2015) (31)
- Will the real model please stand up: Comments on saidel’s ‘Round house or square?’ (1993) (29)
- On the Resilience of Anthropological Archaeology (2006) (24)
- PREHISTORIC SOCIAL EVOLUTION (2002) (20)
- The Postglacial “Readaptation” as Viewed from Mesoamerica (1966) (20)
- The Pre-Columbian Obsidian Industry of El Chayal, Guatemala (1964) (17)
- In Defense of the Tehuacán Project (1997) (15)
- Ground-Stone Artifacts (2021) (11)
- Excavations at San José Mogote (2005) (10)
- Ancient Oaxaca: Discoveries in Mexican Archeology and History (1967) (9)
- Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca: the Origins of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations (2000) (8)
- THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATIONS 4047 (1972) (8)
- On the Perils of "Politically Correct" Archaeology (1994) (6)
- An Olmec “Were-Jaguar” from the Yucatan Peninsula (1967) (6)
- The nutritional significance of maize and teosinte (1976) (6)
- A setting for cultural evolution. (1977) (5)
- The Physical Environment of the Guilá Naquitz Cave Group (2021) (5)
- Cueva Blanca (2019) (4)
- “THERE WERE GIANTS IN THOSE DAYS” (2001) (4)
- Research Problem (2021) (2)
- Wild Food Resources of the Mitla Caves: Productivity, Seasonality, and Annual Variation (2021) (2)
- Comparing the Preceramic and Modern Microfauna (2021) (2)
- Food Procurement Area and Preceramic Diet at Guilá Naquitz (2021) (2)
- Spatial Analysis of Guilá Naquitz Living Floors: An Introduction to Part VI (2021) (2)
- Research Strategy and Formative Mesoamerica* (2019) (2)
- Guilá Naquitz in Spatial, Temporal, and Cultural Context (2021) (2)
- GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Natural Environment and Early Cultures. Robert C. West (1965) (1)
- Spatial Variation of Debris at Guilá Naquitz: A Descriptive Approach (2021) (1)
- A New World Perspective on the ‘Death’ of Archaeological Theory (2011) (1)
- GENERAL: Man, Culture and Animals: The Role of Animals in Human Ecological Adjustments. Anthony Leeds and Andrew P. Vayda, eds (1966) (1)
- Maritime Adaptations at Cerro Azul, Peru: (2019) (1)
- Mesoamerican Archaeology: New Approaches. Norman Hammond, editor. University of Texas Press, Austin, 1974. xxiv + 474 pp., illus. $15.00. (1977) (1)
- Farming Systems and Political Growth in Ancient Oaxaca, and Aubrey W. Williams, Jr (2017) (1)
- THIRTEEN. Aristocracy without Chiefs (2012) (0)
- Early Americans: respecting ancestors. (2014) (0)
- TWENTY-THREE. How New Empires Learn from Old (2012) (0)
- NINE. Prestige and Equality in Four Native American Societies (2012) (0)
- THREE. Ancestors and Enemies (2012) (0)
- ONE. Genesis and Exodus (2012) (0)
- Alliance Building And Elite Competition (1996) (0)
- FIVE. Inequality without Agriculture (2012) (0)
- Herd Dynamics III: The “Surf City” Model (2016) (0)
- TEN. The Rise and Fall of Hereditary Inequality in Farming Societies (2012) (0)
- SEVEN. The Ritual Buildings of Achievement-Based Societies (2012) (0)
- FIFTEEN. The Chiefly Societies in Our Backyard (2012) (0)
- TWELVE. From Ritual House to Temple in the Americas (2012) (0)
- Nature, Culture, and Practical Reason (2016) (0)
- TWENTY. Black Ox Hides and Golden Stools (2012) (0)
- SIX. Agriculture and Achieved Renown (2012) (0)
- FOUR. Why Our Ancestors Had Religion and the Arts (2012) (0)
- EIGHTEEN. Three of the New World’s First-Generation Kingdoms (2012) (0)
- A Prayer for an Endangered Species (2019) (0)
- TWENTY-TWO. Graft and Imperialism (2012) (0)
- TWO. Rousseau’s “State of Nature” (2012) (0)
- The People of the Puna (2016) (0)
- Colonization And Conquest (1996) (0)
- Herd Dynamics II: The “Santa Claus” Model (2016) (0)
- FOURTEEN. Temples and Inequality in Early Mesopotamia (2012) (0)
- ELEVEN. Three Sources of Power in Chiefly Societies (2012) (0)
- Chupa and Waytakuy (2016) (0)
- EIGHT. The Prehistory of the Ritual House (2012) (0)
- Corrections: Hypocrisy in El Dorado (2002) (0)
- Coping With Risk At The Local Level (1996) (0)
- Mesoamerica, not the new world. (1988) (0)
- Social and Economic Systems in Normative Mesoamerica (2017) (0)
- The Guanaco and the Llama (2016) (0)
- SIXTEEN. How to Turn Rank into Stratification: Tales of the South Pacific (2012) (0)
- Mayan archaeology [3] (1995) (0)
- Sources of Illustrations (2012) (0)
- ARCHEOLOGY: Mammal Remains from Archaeological Sites: Part 1, Southeastern and Southwestern United States. STANLEY J. OLSEN (1965) (0)
- TWENTY-ONE. The Nursery of Civilization (2012) (0)
- Artifacts of Deer Antler (2021) (0)
- NINETEEN. The Land of the Scorpion King (2012) (0)
- ETHNOLOGY: ARCHEOLOGY: Man and Cattle: Proceedings of a Symposium on Domestication. A. E. Mourant, and F. E. Zeuner (eds.) (1964) (0)
- Herd Dynamics IV: Suñay and Adaptation (2016) (0)
- TWENTY-FOUR. Inequality and Natural Law (2012) (0)
- Appendix B: Animal Remains from Archaeological Sites in the Ayacucho Basin Above 3000 m Elevation (2009) (0)
- Suñay and Dual Inheritance Theory (2016) (0)
- Herd Dynamics I: The “Oliver Twist” Model (2016) (0)
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