C. Guzzo Falci
Researcher
Archaeology
Leiden University
Netherlands
Biography
Catarina obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG, Brazil). She was an intern at UFMG’s Specialized Centre for Prehistoric Archaeology (2008-2013), where she analyzed lithics and ceramics from Southeastern Brazil and Amazonia. During the spring 2011, Catarina also did an exchange programme in the University of Texas at Austin (USA), following courses in archaeology ( magna cum laude honours). For her BA thesis (2012), she carried out a technological analysis of debitage associated to stone bead making from the southeast of the Amazon Basin.
Research Interest
Indigenous adornment in a pan-Caribbean perspective: the production, use and exchange of bodily accoutrements through the lenses of the microscope.
Publications
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Rodet M.J., Duarte-Talim D. & Guzzo Falci C. (2014), A produção de contas lÃticas na Amazônia a partir da perspectiva teórico-metodológica da escola francesa (exemplo da Serra dos Carajás, Pará). In: Lourdeau A., Viana S.A., Rodet M.J. (Eds.) Indústrias LÃticas na América do Sul. Abordagens teóricas e metodológicas. Estudos Contemporâneos na Arqueologia no. 1 Recife: Editora UFPE. 123 - 142.
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Guzzo Falci C. & Rodet M.J. (2016), Adornos corporais em Carajás: a produção de contas lÃticas em uma perspectiva regional, Boletim do Museu Paraense EmÃlio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 11(2): 481-503.
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Guzzo Falci C., Van Gijn A.L., Antczak M.M., Antczak A.T. & Hofman C.L. (2017), Challenges for microwear analysis of figurative shell ornaments from pre-Colonial Venezuela, Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 11: 115-130.
