Catarina Guzzo Falci
Biographic Data
| ID | 667944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catarina Guzzo Falci |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catarina Guzzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Falci |
| SIGNATURE | FALCI C G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8730-7176 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A holistic provenance and microwear study of pre-colonial jade objects from the Virgin Islands: Unravelling mobility networks in the wider Caribbean
Pre-colonial Caribbean jade objects from the National Museum of Denmark Hatt Collection were subjected to a provenance and microwear analysis. Thirty-nine jade celts and bodily ornaments from the US Virgin Islands, i.e., St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, and five celts from the West Indies of unknown location, St. Vincent, Cuba and the Dominican Republic were analysed. A comprehensive in-depth examination of jade adornments from St. Croix, combini…
Adornos corporais indígenas no circum-Caribe: Sua Produção, Uso E Troca Através Das Lentes Do Microscópio
Esta tese de doutorado investiga padrões de produção, uso e intercâmbio de adornos corporais no Caribe pré-colonial. Na primeira parte, uma estratégia de pesquisa é proposta para o estudo de coleções circum-caribenhas, combinando análise tecnológica e traceológica. Ao mesmo tempo, uma coleção etnográfica de adornos corporais indígenas da América do Sul é estudada como base para interpretações dos traços de uso. Na segunda parte, são analisadas co…
Island networks: Transformations of inter-community social relationships in the Lesser Antilles at the advent of European colonialism
The Caribbean Sea was a conduit for human mobility and the exchange of goods and ideas during the whole of its pre-colonial history. The period cal. AD 1000-1800, covering the Late Ceramic Age and early colonial era, represents an archaeologically understudied time during which the Lesser Antilles came under increasing influence from the Greater Antilles and coastal South America and participated in the last phase of indigenous resistance to colo…
Lapidary production in the eastern Caribbean: A typo-technological and microwear study of ornaments from the site of Pearls, Grenada
The present paper examines bodily ornaments made of semiprecious lithic materials from the site of Pearls on the island of Grenada. The site was an important node in long-distance interaction networks at play between circum-Caribbean communities during the first centuries of the Common Era. Pearls was an amethyst bead-making workshop and a gateway to South America, from where certain lapidary raw materials likely originated. The importance of the…
The Biographies of Bodily Ornaments from Indigenous Settlements of the Dominican Republic (AD 800-1600)
In this study, we generate novel insights regarding bodily ornaments from indigenous societies of late precolonial Greater Antilles. Previous research has highlighted the sociopolitical role of valuable, exotic, and figurative ornaments, yet there are many gaps in our current understanding of these artifacts. Here, we focus on ornaments from five recently excavated sites in the Dominican Republic (AD 800-1600). We used microwear analysis to inves…
Vibrant pasts in museum drawers: Advances in the study of late precolonial (AD 800–1500) materials collected from north-central Venezuela
Starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, museums and private collectors across the Americas and Europe began amassing objects produced by the indigenous peoples of north-central Venezuela before the European conquest. The rich imagery displayed on decorated pottery and figurines, as well as on skilfully made body ornaments, strongly appealed to the aesthetic tastes of the museum curators and visitors of that time. With some laudable…
New Insights into Use-Wear Development in Bodily Ornaments Through the Study of Ethnographic Collections
The use of microwear analysis has made substantial contributions to the study of archaeological bodily ornaments. However, limitations persist with regard to the interpretation of use and the reconstruction of systems of attachment, hampering a holistic understanding of the diversity of past bodily adornment. This is because the complexities of ornament biographies and the resulting wear traces cannot be grasped exclusively from the study of expe…
Challenges for microwear analysis of figurative shell ornaments from pre-Colonial Venezuela
Adornos corporais em Carajás: A Produção De Contas Líticas Em Uma Perspectiva Regional
O sítio arqueológico MMA-02, encontrado na Serra dos Carajás, Pará, e associado à variante amazônica da tradição Tupiguarani era um local especializado na produção de adornos corporais em uma matéria prima lítica, a caulinita silicificada. Principalmente, contas discoides estariam sendo produzidas, o que está evidente na predominância de suas pré-formas e restos brutos de debitagem. Para o presente artigo, foi feita a análise tecnológica de uma a…
New Insights into Use-Wear Development in Bodily Ornaments Through the Study of Ethnographic Collections
The use of microwear analysis has made substantial contributions to the study of archaeological bodily ornaments. However, limitations persist with regard to the interpretation of use and the reconstruction of systems of attachment, hampering a holistic understanding of the diversity of past bodily adornment. This is because the complexities of ornament biographies and the resulting wear traces cannot be grasped exclusively from the study of expe…
The Biographies of Bodily Ornaments from Indigenous Settlements of the Dominican Republic (AD 800-1600)
In this study, we generate novel insights regarding bodily ornaments from indigenous societies of late precolonial Greater Antilles. Previous research has highlighted the sociopolitical role of valuable, exotic, and figurative ornaments, yet there are many gaps in our current understanding of these artifacts. Here, we focus on ornaments from five recently excavated sites in the Dominican Republic (AD 800-1600). We used microwear analysis to inves…
Island networks: Transformations of inter-community social relationships in the Lesser Antilles at the advent of European colonialism
The Caribbean Sea was a conduit for human mobility and the exchange of goods and ideas during the whole of its pre-colonial history. The period cal. AD 1000-1800, covering the Late Ceramic Age and early colonial era, represents an archaeologically understudied time during which the Lesser Antilles came under increasing influence from the Greater Antilles and coastal South America and participated in the last phase of indigenous resistance to colo…
Lapidary production in the eastern Caribbean: A typo-technological and microwear study of ornaments from the site of Pearls, Grenada
The present paper examines bodily ornaments made of semiprecious lithic materials from the site of Pearls on the island of Grenada. The site was an important node in long-distance interaction networks at play between circum-Caribbean communities during the first centuries of the Common Era. Pearls was an amethyst bead-making workshop and a gateway to South America, from where certain lapidary raw materials likely originated. The importance of the…
Challenges for microwear analysis of figurative shell ornaments from pre-Colonial Venezuela
Vibrant pasts in museum drawers: Advances in the study of late precolonial (AD 800–1500) materials collected from north-central Venezuela
Starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, museums and private collectors across the Americas and Europe began amassing objects produced by the indigenous peoples of north-central Venezuela before the European conquest. The rich imagery displayed on decorated pottery and figurines, as well as on skilfully made body ornaments, strongly appealed to the aesthetic tastes of the museum curators and visitors of that time. With some laudable…
Adornos corporais em Carajás: A Produção De Contas Líticas Em Uma Perspectiva Regional
O sítio arqueológico MMA-02, encontrado na Serra dos Carajás, Pará, e associado à variante amazônica da tradição Tupiguarani era um local especializado na produção de adornos corporais em uma matéria prima lítica, a caulinita silicificada. Principalmente, contas discoides estariam sendo produzidas, o que está evidente na predominância de suas pré-formas e restos brutos de debitagem. Para o presente artigo, foi feita a análise tecnológica de uma a…
Challenges for microwear analysis of figurative shell ornaments from pre-Colonial Venezuela
Adornos corporais em Carajás: A Produção De Contas Líticas Em Uma Perspectiva Regional
O sítio arqueológico MMA-02, encontrado na Serra dos Carajás, Pará, e associado à variante amazônica da tradição Tupiguarani era um local especializado na produção de adornos corporais em uma matéria prima lítica, a caulinita silicificada. Principalmente, contas discoides estariam sendo produzidas, o que está evidente na predominância de suas pré-formas e restos brutos de debitagem. Para o presente artigo, foi feita a análise tecnológica de uma a…
New Insights into Use-Wear Development in Bodily Ornaments Through the Study of Ethnographic Collections
The use of microwear analysis has made substantial contributions to the study of archaeological bodily ornaments. However, limitations persist with regard to the interpretation of use and the reconstruction of systems of attachment, hampering a holistic understanding of the diversity of past bodily adornment. This is because the complexities of ornament biographies and the resulting wear traces cannot be grasped exclusively from the study of expe…
Vibrant pasts in museum drawers: Advances in the study of late precolonial (AD 800–1500) materials collected from north-central Venezuela
Starting in the second half of the nineteenth century, museums and private collectors across the Americas and Europe began amassing objects produced by the indigenous peoples of north-central Venezuela before the European conquest. The rich imagery displayed on decorated pottery and figurines, as well as on skilfully made body ornaments, strongly appealed to the aesthetic tastes of the museum curators and visitors of that time. With some laudable…
Island networks: Transformations of inter-community social relationships in the Lesser Antilles at the advent of European colonialism
The Caribbean Sea was a conduit for human mobility and the exchange of goods and ideas during the whole of its pre-colonial history. The period cal. AD 1000-1800, covering the Late Ceramic Age and early colonial era, represents an archaeologically understudied time during which the Lesser Antilles came under increasing influence from the Greater Antilles and coastal South America and participated in the last phase of indigenous resistance to colo…
Lapidary production in the eastern Caribbean: A typo-technological and microwear study of ornaments from the site of Pearls, Grenada
The present paper examines bodily ornaments made of semiprecious lithic materials from the site of Pearls on the island of Grenada. The site was an important node in long-distance interaction networks at play between circum-Caribbean communities during the first centuries of the Common Era. Pearls was an amethyst bead-making workshop and a gateway to South America, from where certain lapidary raw materials likely originated. The importance of the…
The Biographies of Bodily Ornaments from Indigenous Settlements of the Dominican Republic (AD 800-1600)
In this study, we generate novel insights regarding bodily ornaments from indigenous societies of late precolonial Greater Antilles. Previous research has highlighted the sociopolitical role of valuable, exotic, and figurative ornaments, yet there are many gaps in our current understanding of these artifacts. Here, we focus on ornaments from five recently excavated sites in the Dominican Republic (AD 800-1600). We used microwear analysis to inves…
Adornos corporais indígenas no circum-Caribe: Sua Produção, Uso E Troca Através Das Lentes Do Microscópio
Esta tese de doutorado investiga padrões de produção, uso e intercâmbio de adornos corporais no Caribe pré-colonial. Na primeira parte, uma estratégia de pesquisa é proposta para o estudo de coleções circum-caribenhas, combinando análise tecnológica e traceológica. Ao mesmo tempo, uma coleção etnográfica de adornos corporais indígenas da América do Sul é estudada como base para interpretações dos traços de uso. Na segunda parte, são analisadas co…
A holistic provenance and microwear study of pre-colonial jade objects from the Virgin Islands: Unravelling mobility networks in the wider Caribbean
Pre-colonial Caribbean jade objects from the National Museum of Denmark Hatt Collection were subjected to a provenance and microwear analysis. Thirty-nine jade celts and bodily ornaments from the US Virgin Islands, i.e., St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, and five celts from the West Indies of unknown location, St. Vincent, Cuba and the Dominican Republic were analysed. A comprehensive in-depth examination of jade adornments from St. Croix, combini…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Ornaments (6 works) · History (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Indigenous (3 works)