Bio
Justin Jennings grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. While working on his undergraduate degree in anthropology and archaeology, he excavated briefly in Greece at the Athenian Agora, but later turned his research focus to Peruvian archaeology during graduate school, where his interests continue to this day.
His current research challenges the conceptualizations of the state and civilization in the Ancient Andes and other regions around the world. Over the last twenty-five years, the focus of his fieldwork has been on the Pre-Columbian cultures of southern Peru. His most recent book, forthcoming, is entitled Renouncing the Ancient State: Assembling Early Large-Scale Collectives (Cambridge University Press).
ROM Scientist: Justin Jennings
Publications
- 2023Justin Jennings. Rethinking Global Governance: Learning from Long-Ignored Societies. Routledge, New York. (162 pages)
- 2021Justin Jennings. Finding Fairness: From Pleistocene Foragers to Contemporary Capitalists. University Press of Florida, Tallahassee. (352 pages)
- 2016Justin Jennings. Killing Civilization: A Reassessment of Early Urbanism and its Consequences. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. (376 pages)
- 2011Justin Jennings. Globalizations and the Ancient World. Cambridge University Press, New York. (216 pages)
Co-Authored
- 2011Justin Jennings, Martha Cuevas Garcia, and Roberto Lopez Bravo. Maya: Secrets of their Ancient World. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. (72 pages)
Site Monographs
- 2021Justin Jennings, Willy Yépez Álvarez, and Stefanie Bautista. Quilcapampa: A Wari Enclave in Southern Peru (eds). University Press of Florida, Tallahassee. (419 pages)
- 2015Justin Jennings and Willy Yépez Álvarez (eds.). Tenahaha and the Wari State: A View of the Middle Horizon from the Cotahuasi Valley. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa. (297 pages)
- 2012Willy Yépez Álvarez and Justin Jennings (eds.). Wari en Arequipa: análisis de los contextos funerarios de La Real. Museo Arqueológica José María Morante, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín, Arequipa. (282 pages)
Edited Volumes
- 2025Justin Jennings and nkem ike (eds.) Archaeologies of Alterity: The Politics of Othering in the Past and Present. Routledge, New York.
- 2025In Press Justin Jennings and Colin Fleming (eds.) Psychedelics: Culture, Crime, Cure. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.
- 2025Justin Jennings (ed.) Understanding Early Large Scale Collectives: A Global Perspective. Routledge, New York. (453 pages)
- 2018Justin Jennings and Edward Swenson (eds.) Powerful Places in the Ancient Andes. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. (446 pages)
- 2018Justin Jennings and Adam Sellen (eds.) Real Fake? The Story of a Zapotec Urn. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.* (270 pages). Spanish translation published by UNAM/ROM in 2024.
- 2014Justin Jennings and Luis Jaime Castillo (eds.). Los rostros de Wari: perspectivas interregionales sobre el horizonte medio. Boletín de Arqueología PUCP 16, Fondo Editorial de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima. (242 pages)
- 2010Justin Jennings (ed.) Beyond Wari Walls: Regional Perspectives on Middle Horizon Peru. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. (278 pages)
- 2009Justin Jennings and Brenda Bowser (Eds.). Drink, Power, and Society in the Andes. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. (290 pages)
- 2009Mariusz Ziolkowski, Justin Jennings, and Luis Augusto Belen Franco (Eds.). Arqueología del Área Centro Sur Andina: Actas del Simposio Internacional 30 de Junio – 2 de Julio de 2004, Arequipa Perú, Centro de Estudios Precolombinos, University of Warsaw, Warsaw. (693 pages)
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