Natalia Lozada Mendieta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1164780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natalia Lozada Mendieta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natalia Lozada |
| FAMILY NAME | Mendieta |
| SIGNATURE | MENDIETA N L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de los Andes |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7775-5688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ceramic archaeometric studies in the Amazon and Caribbean regions
Archaeometry had a slow start in the study of Amazonian and Caribbean ceramics, practiced almost exclusively by professionals outside of the archaeology discipline, primarily geologists, physicists and chemists, but is now slowly gaining track among archaeologists. In this paper, we summarize the archaeometric research done in the last thirty years in ceramics from the Amazon and Caribbean regions, emphasizing its main questions, aims and future …
Identifying the Ceramics of Multiethnic Communities in Lowland South America
This study investigates technical traditions of pottery production at two archaeological sites, Picure (ca. 310–1480 CE) and Rabo de Cochino (ca. 100 BCE–1440 CE), in the Middle Orinoco River region near the Colombia–Venezuela border. The chaînes opératoires of multiple technical traditions are reconstructed. Petrographic, geochemical, and macrotrace analyses distinguish local from non-local production and identify hybridized technical traditions…
Monumental snake engravings of the Orinoco River
Rock art of the Middle and Upper Orinoco River in South America is characterised by some of the largest and most enigmatic engravings in the world, including snakes exceeding 40m in length. Here, the authors map the geographic distribution of giant snake motifs and assess the visibility of this serpentine imagery within the Orinoco landscape and Indigenous myths. Occupying prominent outcrops that were visible from great distances, the authors arg…
En ‘Tierra de Caimanes’
Objective/context: In France’s second half of the 19th century, magazines such as Le Tour du Monde and illustrated novels were used to promote geographical sciences and educational and political propaganda of the Third Republic and its economic interests based on the diaries of French travelers. This article analyzes the geographical imaginaries of the Orinoco from a case study of the publications of the travels of Jules Crevaux and Jean Chaffanj…
Beads and Stamps in the Middle Orinoco
The area of the Atures Rapids in the Middle Orinoco River (Venezuela), where multiple Indigenous communities gathered to trade goods, has been identified as a prominent center of commerce since early colonial times. However, the exchange activities taking place there between local and nonlocal actors before European colonization are poorly understood, based only on the ethnohistoric record. This article presents an archaeometric analysis of stone…
Entre La Pedrera y Araracuara
La arqueología del medio río Caquetá, en la Amazonía colombiana, se conoció recién en los 1970s a partir de los resultados de proyectos de investigación pioneros en Araracuara y La Pedrera. Estas investigaciones identificaron secuencias cerámicas diferentes en cada localidad, documentaron una gran cantidad de petroglifos y, por primera vez, registraron suelos antrópicos negros y pardos en el Noroeste Amazónico. Investigaciones posteriores enfatiz…
Archaeology in the 4ures Rapids of the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela
This paper briefly reports on the initial results of a new Leverhulme-sponsored four-year archaeological project (RPG 234- 2014) centred on the Átures Rapids area of the Middle Orinoco River, Amazonas State, Venezuela (Fig. 1). The Cotúa Island Reflexive Archaeology Project seeks to establish the longue durée historical processes that by early colonial times culminated in the region’s reputation for being a key crossroads – where diverse ethno-li…
La ilusión del hermano
The following article takes a close look at the significant approaches taken by which literature and anthropology towardmythology. It explores the nature of these disciplines’ multiple perspectives, as well as their shared interest in the topos of origin and identity. Convergences and divergences are analyzed in the light of their respective mythographies of the Yurupary myth
Beads and Stamps in the Middle Orinoco
The area of the Atures Rapids in the Middle Orinoco River (Venezuela), where multiple Indigenous communities gathered to trade goods, has been identified as a prominent center of commerce since early colonial times. However, the exchange activities taking place there between local and nonlocal actors before European colonization are poorly understood, based only on the ethnohistoric record. This article presents an archaeometric analysis of stone…
Identifying the Ceramics of Multiethnic Communities in Lowland South America
This study investigates technical traditions of pottery production at two archaeological sites, Picure (ca. 310–1480 CE) and Rabo de Cochino (ca. 100 BCE–1440 CE), in the Middle Orinoco River region near the Colombia–Venezuela border. The chaînes opératoires of multiple technical traditions are reconstructed. Petrographic, geochemical, and macrotrace analyses distinguish local from non-local production and identify hybridized technical traditions…
Monumental snake engravings of the Orinoco River
Rock art of the Middle and Upper Orinoco River in South America is characterised by some of the largest and most enigmatic engravings in the world, including snakes exceeding 40m in length. Here, the authors map the geographic distribution of giant snake motifs and assess the visibility of this serpentine imagery within the Orinoco landscape and Indigenous myths. Occupying prominent outcrops that were visible from great distances, the authors arg…
La ilusión del hermano
The following article takes a close look at the significant approaches taken by which literature and anthropology towardmythology. It explores the nature of these disciplines’ multiple perspectives, as well as their shared interest in the topos of origin and identity. Convergences and divergences are analyzed in the light of their respective mythographies of the Yurupary myth
Archaeology in the 4ures Rapids of the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela
This paper briefly reports on the initial results of a new Leverhulme-sponsored four-year archaeological project (RPG 234- 2014) centred on the Átures Rapids area of the Middle Orinoco River, Amazonas State, Venezuela (Fig. 1). The Cotúa Island Reflexive Archaeology Project seeks to establish the longue durée historical processes that by early colonial times culminated in the region’s reputation for being a key crossroads – where diverse ethno-li…
Entre La Pedrera y Araracuara
La arqueología del medio río Caquetá, en la Amazonía colombiana, se conoció recién en los 1970s a partir de los resultados de proyectos de investigación pioneros en Araracuara y La Pedrera. Estas investigaciones identificaron secuencias cerámicas diferentes en cada localidad, documentaron una gran cantidad de petroglifos y, por primera vez, registraron suelos antrópicos negros y pardos en el Noroeste Amazónico. Investigaciones posteriores enfatiz…
En ‘Tierra de Caimanes’
Objective/context: In France’s second half of the 19th century, magazines such as Le Tour du Monde and illustrated novels were used to promote geographical sciences and educational and political propaganda of the Third Republic and its economic interests based on the diaries of French travelers. This article analyzes the geographical imaginaries of the Orinoco from a case study of the publications of the travels of Jules Crevaux and Jean Chaffanj…
Beads and Stamps in the Middle Orinoco
The area of the Atures Rapids in the Middle Orinoco River (Venezuela), where multiple Indigenous communities gathered to trade goods, has been identified as a prominent center of commerce since early colonial times. However, the exchange activities taking place there between local and nonlocal actors before European colonization are poorly understood, based only on the ethnohistoric record. This article presents an archaeometric analysis of stone…
Monumental snake engravings of the Orinoco River
Rock art of the Middle and Upper Orinoco River in South America is characterised by some of the largest and most enigmatic engravings in the world, including snakes exceeding 40m in length. Here, the authors map the geographic distribution of giant snake motifs and assess the visibility of this serpentine imagery within the Orinoco landscape and Indigenous myths. Occupying prominent outcrops that were visible from great distances, the authors arg…
Ceramic archaeometric studies in the Amazon and Caribbean regions
Archaeometry had a slow start in the study of Amazonian and Caribbean ceramics, practiced almost exclusively by professionals outside of the archaeology discipline, primarily geologists, physicists and chemists, but is now slowly gaining track among archaeologists. In this paper, we summarize the archaeometric research done in the last thirty years in ceramics from the Amazon and Caribbean regions, emphasizing its main questions, aims and future …
Identifying the Ceramics of Multiethnic Communities in Lowland South America
This study investigates technical traditions of pottery production at two archaeological sites, Picure (ca. 310–1480 CE) and Rabo de Cochino (ca. 100 BCE–1440 CE), in the Middle Orinoco River region near the Colombia–Venezuela border. The chaînes opératoires of multiple technical traditions are reconstructed. Petrographic, geochemical, and macrotrace analyses distinguish local from non-local production and identify hybridized technical traditions…
Geography (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (3 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (3 works) · Humanities (3 works) · Amazon rainforest (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works)