Richard Blanton

Richard E. Blanton
Born November 1943 (age 68)
Residence  United States
Citizenship American
Fields anthropology, archaeology
Institutions Purdue University, Indiana USA
Alma mater University of Michigan (PhD 1970)
Academic advisors Kent V. Flannery[1]
Notable students Gary M. Feinman[2]
Known for • Mesoamerican early state formation
• excavations at Monte Albán
• economic anthropology
• cross-cultural research

Richard E. Blanton (born 1943)[3] is an American anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic. He is most renowned for his archaeological field and theoretical research into the development of civilizations in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly those from the central Mexican plateau and Valley of Oaxaca regions. Since 1976 he has been a faculty member at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, where he is currently (as of 2008) Professor of Anthropology at Purdue's College of Liberal Arts.

Notes

  1. ^ Marcus & Flannery (2000, p.404)
  2. ^ Marcus & Flannery (2000, p.404)
  3. ^ Date information sourced from Library of Congress Authorities data, via corresponding WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF) .

References

Marcus, Joyce; and Kent V. Flannery (2000). "Cultural Evolution in Oaxaca: The Origins of the Zapotec and Mixtec Civilizations". In Richard E.W. Adams and Murdo J. Macleod (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol. II: Mesoamerica, part 1. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 358–406. ISBN 0-521-35165-0. OCLC 33359444. 

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