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Lumbreras is one of the most influential Peruvian archaeologists of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born on the 29th of July in 1936 in the city of Huamanga, Ayacucho. Moving to Lima to complete his education, first in La Recoleta school, and later, in 1951, he continued his secondary education at Antonio Raimondi college. From the 4th year in secondary school, Lumbreras founded a study group with his classmates, dedicated to doing research and holding social gatherings and informative lectures on subjects of history and archaeology.
Lumbreras studied at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), obtaining his Bachelor of Arts and Humanities in 1959 and his Doctorate in Arts with special mention in Archaeology and Ethnology in 1960. At the time of his university training, he had Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Luis E. Valcárcel, Jorge C. Muelle, and José Matos Mar as professors. The visiting professors he had the opportunity to work...
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Lumbreras, L. 1969. De los pueblos, las culturas y las artes en el antiguo Perú. Lima: Moncloa-Campodónico.
- 1972. De los orígenes del estado en el Perú. Lima: Milla Batres.
- 1974. La arqueología como ciencia social. Lima: Histar.
- 1981. Arqueología de la América Andina. Lima: Milla Batres.
- 1993. Chavín de Huántar. Excavaciones en la Galería delas Ofrendas. Mainz: VerlagPhillip von Zabern.
- 2005. Arqueología y sociedad. Lima: MNAAHP/INDEA/IEP.
Tantaleán, H. 2005. Arqueología de la formación del estado. El caso de la Cuenca Norte del Titicaca. Fondo Editorial del Pedagógico. Lima: Avqi Ediciones.
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Tantaleán, H. (2014). Lumbreras, Luis Guillermo. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_317
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