Overview
Amandine Flammang is a Postdoctoral Fellow at CIAMS funded by a Belgian American Educational Foundation fellowship. Amandine trained as both an archaeologist (M.A. Université Libre de Bruxelles) and bioarchaeologist (M.Sc. University College London) and obtained a Ph.D. in archaeology from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) in 2025.
Her primary region of interest is the Andean highlands, where she co-directed the Proyecto Arqueológico Regional Ancash – Mallqui (PARAMa) between 2021 and 2023. The focus of PARAMa was the funerary contexts of the late pre-Hispanic period (700 – 1532 CE) of the Upper Nepeña Drainage (Ancash, Peru). Her doctoral research integrated archaeology, bioarchaeology, and landscape archaeology to better understand collective funerary contexts of the Andean highlands, a ubiquitous yet understudied phenomenon.
Amandine’s research interests are funerary practices related to communal tombs, living-dead interactions, and their role in socio-political organization in the Andes and beyond. In addition, she is interested in bridging archaeological science with Indigenous ontologies and religion in order to interpret the archaeological record.