Pedro Armillas Garcia (9 September 1914 – 11 April 1984)[1] was a Spanish academic anthropologist, archaeologist, and an influential pre-Columbian Mesoamerica scholar of the mid-20th century.
As an archaeologist he was known both for his fieldwork and excavations at numerous sites in central and northern Mexico, and his contributions in archaeological theory.
With the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War he joined the Loyalist forces but upon their defeat left Spain for Mexico, with his wife the painter Angeles Gil Sala whom he married in 1937.
Between 1940 and 1946, Armillas studied in the recently inaugurated Escuela Nacional de Antropología (National School of Anthropology), where he became a professor.
In the 1940s Armillas conducted several seasons of excavations at the major site of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico, following on from earlier investigations by George Vaillant, Eduardo Noguera, and Sigvald Linné.