Luis Flores-Blanco

Peruvian Archaeologist, Quantitative, Archaeometry, Traveler. Mochica parents. Researching In the Titicaca Basin.
PhD in Anthropology, UC Davis. Postdoc at ASU

[Luis Flores-Blanco @luisfb78]

🚨New paper in JAS Reports:

"Volcanic Stone Sculptures of Were-Animals at Tiwanaku: pXRF and Statistical Analyses Suggest Regional Geochemical Provenance of Chachapuma Statues."

Free access until July 20:
https://t.co/7UsWkDwAXJ

#Tiwanaku #Archaeology #Andes #pXRF #sculptures

[Luis Flores-Blanco @luisfb78]

@asierge @PNASNews @ICTA_UAB @UBUinvestiga @IIIPC_Cantabria @Prehistoria_UAB @LaboratorioEH @palaeotropics @FundacionPalarq @near_coast Felicitaciones @asierge y todo el equipo!

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@Metropolitano_L Parece q ya nadie fiscaliza la via exclusiva del Metropolitano. Los vehiculos no paran de pasar por aca @MuniLima

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@ocram @LaSalitadelSin Belmont con ese Voto? Puede ser Lima pero Dificil creerlo a nivel Nacional

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Exited to announce I got the Franklin Research Grant from @AmPhilSociety to support my research on early agriculture (qochas) and early complex societies in the northern Titicaca Basin, Peru!
Regreso al Titicaca, aunque esta vez por un proyecto todavia exploratorio.

[Luis Flores-Blanco @luisfb78]

@BancoMundialLAC @JaimeSaavedra22 Y pensar que dejamos que lo saquen, y luego con la perdida de poder de la @SuneduPeru, la educacion Universitaria del Peru se debilitó mucho

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@SuiGnris @homuslimensis Claro, es un privilegio de pocos. Revisa Cuantos peruanos tienen vacaciones y Bonos. La mayor parte de la clase trabajadora no tiene eso. Solo unos pocos lo tiene

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@peru21noticias ¿Había solo decenas de personas? @grok

[Luis Flores-Blanco @luisfb78]

Brainfood: Defining domestication, Pig domestication, Archaeological orphan crops, Levant Neolithic causes, Altiplano agricultural origins, Irish cattle, Islamic Green Revolution, Ancient fish DNA, Ancient Chinese rice - https://t.co/MPu1pNmab4

[Museo de Historia Natural UNMSM @MuseoHNUNMSM]

#NuevoDescubrimientoMHN
🧐🤠¡Nuevos aportes! Arqueólogos plantean nuevo origen de la agricultura en el altiplano, basandose en la dieta de los antiguos pobladores de la cuenca del Titicaca (Perú).

[🅰ntiquity Journal @AntiquityJ]

@luisfb78 Dating before evidence for sedentism, agriculture and social inequality, this suggests monument construction was initially motivated by the desire to memorialise ancestors, not a means to display elite power 2/2

🆓 https://t.co/4xptan6Q7v

[Luis Flores-Blanco @luisfb78]

Thanks to @UCDLandS (especially Greg Watry) for the press release for my paper in @AntiquityJ, which Greg aptly titles "structures of the dead" to refer to the Kaillachuro site, a burial mound site at the Andean Altiplano. https://t.co/OltAl5xruV

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With support of @NatGeoExplorers @AmPhilSociety @UCDLandS, etc. Special thanks to the Aymara community of Jachacachi who welcomed me. https://t.co/8u9KXEv7cB

[Luis Flores-Blanco @luisfb78]

🚨New paper out! (again)
In this paper in @PLOS, we show from various data (isotopes, zooarchaeol., botany, quantitative) that the transition to the first farmers in the Titicaca Basin did not go through a hardship time as has been shown elsewhere.
https://t.co/dN9h6JDtCX

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This research sheds new light on the importance of rituals to ancestors in the formation of early burial mounds in the Titicaca Basin, Andes.

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New paper out!
I am very excited to share my new paper published today in @Antiquity. One of the earliest monumental sites in the Andean Altiplano-- 5.3-3.0 ka. @UCDLandS @ASU @NatGeoExplorers @AmPhilSociety https://t.co/RBqZiZirgo

[Luis Flores-Blanco @luisfb78]

@MTC_GobPeru @Agencia_Andina @noticias_tvperu @RadioNacionalFM @noticiAmerica @RPPNoticias @atv_noticias @exitosape @Latina_Noticias @larepublica_pe @peru21noticias La nota periodistica dice que esta inhabilitada, y ustedes lo acaban de confirmar, entonces no es FALSO

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In the middle of the lab work. Behind me is a pXRF equipment for compositional analysis. @ASUBeingHuman @ASU

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No hay primera, sin 2da parte https://t.co/AzVIT8QwKR

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Si estás pensando en postular un doctorado en EE.UU., aquí te dejo algunos consejos https://t.co/d7fRHBwYhx