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Dr Francisca Santana-Sagredo

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My main research interest is the study of prehispanic humans and animals from northern and southern Chile, together with northern Peru, from a bioarchaeological standpoint. My work concentrates on the use of stable isotope and radiogenic analysis, as well as radiocarbon dating on archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and bioanthropological samples. My investigations include the transition to and intensification of agriculture, pastoralism (evaluating what domestic camelids ate and how they moved), and the study of human palaeodiet and mobility. I studied my PhD at the University of Oxford, England, focusing on how people moved and travelled along their lives in the Atacama Desert 1,000 years ago—from the coast to the valleys and/or highlands and vice versa—through stable isotope analysis of carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and radiogenic strontium isotopes.
I am also interested on the reconstruction of life stories in the past through bioanthropological analysis of human remains and the evaluation of physical activity patterns, oral health, and palaeopathologies.

Degrees:

2017
Doctorate
Other
2012
Master
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Publications resulting from Research
Santana-Sagredo F, Schulting R.J., Méndez-Quiros P, Vidal-Elgueta A, Uribe M, Loyola R, Maturana-Fernández A, Díaz F.P., Latorre C, McRostie V.B., Santoro C.M., Mandakovic V, Harrod C, Lee-Thorp J. 2021. ‘White Gold’ Guano Fertiliser drove Agricultural Intensification in the Atacama Desert from 1000 AD. Nature Plants 7: 152-158.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-00835-4
Santana-Sagredo F, Dufour E, Goepfert N, Zazzo A, Franco Jordan R, Vásquez Sánchez S. 2020. New bioarchaeological evidence and radiocarbon dating in Lambayeque Camelids from El Brujo complex (northern coast of Peru): funerary and herd management practices. Environmental Archaeology 25: 333-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2018.1556960
Santana-Sagredo F, Lee-Thorp J, Schulting R, Uribe M. 2019. Mobility in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, in the Late Intermediate Period (AD 900-1450): A re-evaluation using stable isotope analysis. Quaternary International 533: 66-77.
Santana-Sagredo F, Schulting R, Lee-Thorp J, Agüero C, Uribe M, Lemp C. 2017. Paired radiocarbon dating on human samples and camelid fibers and textiles from Northern Chile: The Case of Pica 8 (Tarapacá). Radiocarbon 59: 1195-1213.
Santana-Sagredo F, Hubbe M, Uribe M. 2016. Isotopic evidence for marine consumption and mobility in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 26: 476-489.
Santana-Sagredo F, Lee-Thorp J, Schulting R, Uribe M. 2015. Isotopic Evidence for Divergent Diets and Mobility Patterns in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 900-1450). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 156: 374-387.
Santana-Sagredo F, Uribe M, Herrera MJ, Retamal R, Flores S. 2015. Dietary practices in ancient populations from northern Chile during the transition to agriculture (Tarapacá region, 1000 BC- AD 900). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 158: 751-758.