Kent Vaughn Flannery (born 1934)[1] is an 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.
Flannery grew up in Maryland on a farm near the Susquehanna River,[2] and attended the Gilman School in Baltimore.
in zoology, but shifted to Anthropology following fieldwork in Mexico; he then excavated in Iran with Robert Braidwood in 1960.
[2] He has 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.
[11] In 1973 Flannery married fellow archaeologist and frequent collaborator Joyce Marcus.