# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-blanton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:24.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-blanton"
name: "Richard Blanton"
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description: "Richard Edward Blanton is an American anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic. He is most renowned for his archaeological field and theoretical research into the development of civilizations in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly those from the central Mexican plateau and Valley of Oaxaca regions. Blanton taught at Rice University and Hunter College of the City University of New York before joining the faculty at Purdue University in 1976. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Purdue's College of Liberal Arts."
tagline: "American academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_E._Blanton.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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birthDate: "1943-11-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     35
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump