Juan Pedro Laporte

Juan Pedro Laporte Molina (7 August 1945 – 22 January 2010) was a prominent Guatemalan archaeologist best known for his work on the ancient Maya civilization. He studied in the United States at the University of Arizona, in which he enrolled at the age of nineteen. After just one year he transferred to the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia ("National School of Anthropology and History") in Mexico. He continued his studies at the Universidad Autónoma de México from 1972 to 1976, He worked as a research assistant at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City from 1967 through to 1976. He first entered USAC in 1977, soon after returning from Mexico. His books include La organización territorial y política en el mundo Maya Clásico : el caso del sureste y centro-oeste de Petén, Guatemala and Bibliografía de la arqueología guatemalteca.

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