Izumi Shimada

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Izumi Shimada is a professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. His research is on pre-Hispanic cultures of the Andes, archaeology of religion, and mortuary practices.

In 2006, the Congress of Peru bestowed Professor Shimada with the Gran Official medal for his archaeological work at Sican.