Luis Huamán
Laboratorio de Palinología y Paleobotánica
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Lima, Perú

Luis Huamán is the directory of the Laboratorio de Palinología y Paleobotánica, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Perú (http://www.upch.edu.pe/facien/herbario/index.htm). There he has helped developed the Recent collection of pollen, phytoliths, and spores of South American plants, which is used in a variety of paleobotanical and archaeological studies. Dr. Huamán has received traning in palynology at Texas A&M and is involved in a collaborative project with the Field Museum of Natural History, el Proyecto Arqueológico Norte Chico (PANC).