Duccio Bonavia held professorships at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Universidad Nacional San Cristobal de Huamanga (Ayacucho), and at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (Lima), before he retired in 2005. He served as the Assistant Director of the Museo Nacional de Arqueolog�a y Antropolog�a de Lima and has written fourteen books, including Peru: Hombre e Historia, Mural Paintings in Ancient Peru, and The South American Camelids.