Position Title
Ph.D. Candidate
Education
- 2021-M.A. Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA
- 2013-M.A. Prehistoric Archeology, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
- 2006-B.S. Social Sciences, The National University of San Marcos, Lima, Peru
About
Luis Flores-Blanco is a Ph.D. candidate of the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, working with Professor Randy Haas.
Research Focus
Luis is interested in researching the evolution of the social behavior of the last hunter-gatherers and their process of change towards a complex lifestyle in the highlands of the Lake Titicaca Basin, Peru some 4,000 thousand years ago. On this, he is particularly interested in investigating two topics: the emergence of leadership and the residential pattern using multiple lines of evidence from archaeology and archaeometry.
Publications
- Flores Blanco, Luis (ed.). (2018). Monumentos, Lugares, Ancestros. Paisajes Andinos y Lejanos (Monuments, Places, Ancestors. Andean and distant landscapes). Ed. Avqui, Lima.
- Flores, Luis. (2017). El Pacifico: early architecture and landscape during the Formative period of the Central Andes. Antiquity 91 (357): 1-6. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2017.40
Awards
2021 - Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research Grant. APS.
2021 - Rust Family Foundation. Archaeology Grants Program.
2020 - Carlos Brignardello Grant in Archaeology. Institut Français d'études Andines - IFEA.
2020 & 2019 - Evolutionary Anthropology Summer 2020 Fellowship, UC, Davis.
2020 - Student Scholarship from Sacramento Archaeological Society.
2019 - Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, UC Davis.
2018-19 - UC Davis Provost's Fellowships in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences for the first year of study.