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Dr. Elmo Leon Canales Born on December 13, 1965 is a Peruvian archaeologist, who is expert in lithic technology, american paleoindians and past ancient civilisations of the Andes. He obtained a Bachelor and Licence in Archaeology at the University San Marcos, Peru in 1995. In 1996 he was granted with a German Academic Service (DAAD) scholarship to study archaeology in Germany. From 1996 to 2000 he took archaeology and prehistory courses in both the University of Bonn, and University of Cologne studying three carrers, Prehistory, Ancient Americanistic and Classical Archaeology. During this time he participated in paleolithic excavations in Germany and France, as well hold conferences of his research. After his PhD (2000) he retourned to Peru and tought at the University of Villarreal, and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru. He had also a grant from the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC to research as a post-doc in this institution (2004), and almost inmediately was invited as visitant professor by the Colegio de Michoacan, Mexico (2005). He has also worked for the National Institute of Culture of Peru as researcher and museum director. Since 2008 he is post-doc researcher of the University of Bonn (Department of Ancient America and Ethnology) thanks to a Georg-Forster Fellow Grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. His current project deals with Paleoclimatic Shift and Possible Impact among the Ancient Latin American Civilisations. He has several peer-reviewed scientific publications, especially in Current Research in the Pleistocene (Texas A&M), but also published in Peru, North America and Europe. In 2007 he published his first book entitled: "Human Origins in the Andes of Peru" a study of the very first andean peopling and ice age climate in this region.