# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/izumi-shimada
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:56:02.505Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/izumi-shimada"
name: "Izumi Shimada"
slug: "izumi-shimada"
description: "Izumi Shimada is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIUC) and 2007 Outstanding Scholar with research interests in the archaeology of complex pre-Hispanic cultures in the Andes including Inca civilization, the technology and organization of craft production, mortuary analysis, experimental archaeology, the role of ideology and organized religion in cultural developments, and ecology-culture interaction."
tagline: "American anthropologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Professor_Izumi_Shimada_holding_tumi_knife_excavated_at_Huaca_Loro_in_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.676350666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "島田泉 (考古学者)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump