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Linda Rosa Manzanilla Naim (born January 25, 1951) is a Mexican archaeologist, Egyptologist, researcher and academic.
Manzanilla is an important figure in the field of archaeology, particularly for her work in Mesoamerican studies. She is well known for her contributions to the understanding of the ancient civilizations of Mexico, especially the pre-Columbian cultures such as the Teotihuacan, Olmec and the Maya. Manzanilla has conducted extensive research on the social, political, and ritual practices of ancient societies and how they evolved over time.
Her research uses an interdisciplinary approach and mainly focuses on Teotihuacan.
In 1970 she entered the National School of Anthropology and History () where she received a degree in archaeology. She worked as a research assistant in the Department of Prehistory of the National Institute of Anthropology and History from 1972 to 1977. In 1979 she obtained a master's degree in anthropological sciences and graduated magna cum laude. She traveled to Paris to pursue a third-cycle doctorate in Egyptology from 1979 to 1982, at Paris-Sorbonne University.
In 1983, she became a researcher at the () of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she was director from 1998 to 2002. She is still a researcher in that institution. From 1975 to 2013 she was a professor of the Bachelor's Degree in Archaeology at the National School of Anthropology and History. Since 1997 she has been a professor of the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at UNAM, and of the Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology at UNAM since 2017.
Manzanilla has been a visiting professor at Stanford University in the U.S. state of California, the University of Costa Rica, the International University of Andalucía (Spain), the Autonomous University of Yucatán (Mexico) and the Colegio de México. At Stanford she was Tinker Visiting Professor.
She is a researcher at the Anthropological Research Institute of the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Manzanilla has excavated in Mexico, particularly at Teotihuacan and Cobá (1983 y 1984); in Xalasco, Tlaxcala (2008); Monte Albán, Oaxaca (1973); Abasolo, Guanajuato (1973); Lake Texcoco (1972) and Santa Marta, Chiapas (1973). Internationally she has excavated in Tiwanaku (Bolivia) as part of a project of the University of Chicago (1988–1989); Medinet Madi (Egypt) as part of the Italian Archaeological Missions of the University of Rome (1978), Arslantepe (Eastern Anatolia) as part of the Italian Archaeological Missions of the University of Rome (1976, 1984, 1989, 1996 and 2013) and Magdala (Israel) as consultant of the Project Magdala (2010 and 2012).
From 2000 to 2003 she co-directed the Xalla Palace Project at Teotihuacan, State of Mexico, with Leonardo López Luján and William Fash.
Her main efforts have focused on the early cities, the daily life of the inhabitants of Teotihuacan, and their functionally distinct assemblages and spaces (Xalla, Teopancazco, Oztoyahualco and the tunnels to the east of the Pyramid of the Sun); in this pyramid she has applied state-of-the-art technology such as the muon with .
In the city of Cobá, Quintana Roo, she conducted research on domestic life in classic Maya sites.
Manzanilla has been a member of the editorial boards of several journals, such as Ancient Mesoamerica (USA), Latin American Antiquity (USA), Journal of Archaeological Research (USA), Quaternary Research (USA-Netherlands), Trabajos de Prehistoria (Spain), Revista Arqueología (Argentina), Anales de Antropología, Revista Cuicuilco (ENAH), the journal of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, Cuadernos de Arquitectura Mesoamericana, Revista Mexicana de Estudios Antropológicos, Revista Tiempo y Región, Arqueología Mexicana, Estudios de Asia y África and National Autonomous University of Mexico magazine, as well of the encyclopedias Atlas Histórico de Mesoamérica, The Archaeology of Ancient Mesoamerica, Fundamental Issues in Archaeology, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures.
Manzanilla was co-editor for three years of the journal Latin American Antiquity of the Society for American Archaeology alongside Gary Feinman.
Some of her more notable works are the Alfonso Caso Award winners 'Anatomía de un conjunto residencial teotihuacano en Oztoyahualco' from 1993 (as editor) and 'Estudios arqueométricos del centro de barrio de Teopancazco en Teotihuacan' from 2012.
Other works are 'La constitución de la sociedad urbana en Mesopotamia: un proceso en la historia' (1986), 'Akapana. Una pirámide en el centro del mundo' (1992), 'Teotihuacan: ciudad excepcional de Mesoamérica' (2017), 'El uso de los recursos naturales en un centro de barrio de Teotihuacan: Teopancazco' (2017), 'El Palacio de Xalla en Teotihuacan: primer acercamiento' (2019),Linda Manzanilla (2025). 9786073029735, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas. ISBN 9786073029735 'Las sedes del poder en Mesoamérica' (as editor) (2021),Linda Manzanilla (2025). 9786073040976, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas : El Colegio Nacional. ISBN 9786073040976 'El inframundo de Teotihuacan' (2023) and 'Teotihuacan in Central Mexico: an exceptional megalopolis' (2023).
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