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Falabella, Fernanda

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Fernanda Falabella is a South American archaeologist. She was born and grew up in Santiago de Chile. After high school, she attended a course given by a university professor to a group of volunteers in archaeology who were doing fieldwork along the coast near Santiago, and recognized immediately a passion for the questions being asked and the potentials of the answers being explored. She enrolled in the Licenciatura of Anthropology program at the Universidad de Chile, studying archaeology. She obtained the title of archaeologist in 1979. Her thesis focused on pre-Hispanic horticultural societies in Central Chile starting a long-term research of cultural processes in this region. She has conducted research on various topics related to the cultural practices and the social organization of these groups, such as dietary patterns, ceramic technology, resources circulation, settlement patterns, and identities. Parallel to these academic and scientific...

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  • Cornejo, L., F. Falabella & L. Sanhueza. 2003-2004. Patrón de asentamiento y organización social de los grupos Aconcagua de la cuenca del Maipo. Revista Chilena de Antropología 17: 77-104.

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  • Cornejo, L., F. Falabella, L. Sanhueza & I. Correa. 2012. Patrón de asentamiento durante el período Alfarero en la cuenca de Santiago, Chile central. Una mirada a la escala local. Intersecciones en Antropología 13(3-4): 449-60.

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  • Falabella, F. & O. Andonie. 2011. Análisis por activación neutrónica instrumental de alfarería Aconcagua en el valle del río Maipo, Chile, in L. Vetter, R. Vega-Centeno, P. Olivera & S. Petrick (ed.) II Congreso Latinoamericano de Arqueometría: 215-28. Lima, Perú: IPEN, UNI, OEI.

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  • Falabella, F. & M. T. Planella. 1988-1989. Alfarería temprana en Chile central: un modelo de interpretación. Paleoetnologica 5: 41-64.

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  • Falabella, F. & L. Sanhueza. 2005-2006. Interpretaciones sobre la organización social de los grupos alfareros tempranos de Chile central: alcances y perspectivas. Revista Chilena de Antropología 18: 105-33.

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  • Falabella, F. & R. Stehberg. 1989. Los inicios del desarrollo agrícola y alfarero: zona central (300 a.C. a 900 d.C.), in J. Hidalgo, V. Schiappacasse, H. Niemeyer, C. Aldunate & I. Solimano (ed.) Prehistoria (Cap. XIV): 295-311. Santiago: Editorial Andrés Bello.

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  • Falabella, F., A. Deza, A. Román & E. Almendras. 1993. Alfarería Llolleo: un enfoque funcional. Boletín Museo Regional de la Araucanía 4(2): 327-54.

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  • Falabella, F., L. Vargas & R. Meléndez.1994. Differential preservation and recovery of fish remains in central Chile, in W. Van Neer (ed.) Fish exploitations in the past (Annales du Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences Zoologiques 274): 25-35. Tervuren: Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale.

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  • Falabella, F., R. Meléndez & L. Vargas. 1995. Claves osteológicas para peces de Chile central. Santiago: Artegrama Ltda.

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  • Falabella, F., M. T. Planella & B. Tagle. 2001. Pipe e tradizione di fumare nelle societa preispaniche del periodo agroceramicolo precoce nella regione centrale del Cile. Eleusis Nuova Serie 5: 137-52.

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  • Falabella, F., L. Sanhueza & E. Fonseca. 2002. Una propuesta sobre la naturaleza de las materias primas de la cerámica Aconcagua Salmón. Chungara 34(2): 167-89.

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  • Falabella, F., M. T. Planella, E. Aspillaga, L. Sanhueza & R. H. Tykot. 2007. Dieta en sociedades alfareras de Chile central: aporte de análisis de isótopos estables. Chungara, Revista de Antropología Chilena 39(1): 5-27.

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  • Falabella, F., M. T. Planella & R. H. Tykot. 2008. El maíz (Zea mays) en el mundo prehispánico de Chile central. Latin American Antiquity 19(1): 25-46.

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  • Falabella, F., L. Sanhueza, I. Correa, M.D. Glascock, T. J. Ferguson & E. Fonseca. 2013. Studying technological practices at a local level: neutron activation and petrographic analyses of early ceramic period pottery in central Chile. Archaeometry 55(1): 33-53.

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  • Planella, M.T. & F. Falabella. 2008. La mujer en el Chile prehispano: un acercamiento desde los estudios arqueológicos en la zona central, in S. Montecino (ed.) Mujeres Chilenas: fragmentos de una historia: 23-30. Santiago de Chile: Catalonia.

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  • Planella, M. T., F. Falabella & B. Tagle. 2010. Reconstruyendo cocinas y recuperando sabores de Chile central prehispano, in C. Sciolla (ed.) Historia y cultura de la alimentación en Chile: 63-85. Santiago: Editorial Catalonia.

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  • Sanhueza, L. & F. Falabella. 2009. Descomponiendo el complejo Llolleo: hacia una propuesta de sus niveles mínimos de integración. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 41(2): 229-39.

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  • - 2010. Analyses of stable isotopes: from the archaic to the horticultural communities in central Chile. Current Anthropology 51(1): 127-36.

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  • Tykot, R.H., F. Falabella, M. T. Planella, E. Aspillaga, L. Sanhueza & C. Becker. 2009. Stable isotopes and archaeology in central Chile: methodological insights and interpretative problems for dietary reconstruction. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 19(2): 156-70.

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Castro, V. (2014). Falabella, Fernanda. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2432

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