Ana María Lorandi (7 March 1936 – 30 January 2017) was an Argentine archaeologist, historian and scientific researcher who specialised in Andean ethnohistory. Along John Victor Murra she is known for a new radical historiography of the

Inca Empire The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (, ), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The History of the Incas, Inca ...

. Besides her Andean studies she also contributed to research on the rural areas of southeastern of South America, that is

Paraguay Paraguay, officially the Republic of Paraguay, is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the Argentina–Paraguay border, south and southwest, Brazil to the Brazil–Paraguay border, east and northeast, and Boli ...

, the Argentine Littoral, the

Pampas The Pampas (; from Quechua 'plain'), also known as the Pampas Plain, are fertile South American low grasslands that cover more than and include the Argentine provinces of Buenos Aires, La Pampa, Santa Fe, Entre Ríos, and Córdoba; all o ...

and

Patagonia Patagonia () is a geographical region that includes parts of Argentina and Chile at the southern end of South America. The region includes the southern section of the Andes mountain chain with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and glaciers ...

. In June 1973 Lorandi participated in the

Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino Primer Congreso del Hombre Andino (First Conference of the Andean Man) was an academic conference in northern Chile organized by the northern branch of the University of Chile in June 1973. Its subject was the Indigenous societies of the Andean wor ...

held in northern Chile.

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1936 births 2017 deaths Scholars of the Incan civilization 20th-century Argentine historians Argentine women historians 20th-century archaeologists 21st-century archaeologists Women archaeologists Argentine prehistorians National University of Rosario alumni People from Santa Fe Province {{archaeologist-stub