Daniela Valenzuela

Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology
BA (Universidad de Chile), MA (Universidad de Tarapaca, Chile), PhD (Universidad Catolica del Norte,Chile),

Research Interests: Andean archaeology, pre-Hispanic Andean economy, animal consumption, visual images, production/use of rock art and geoglyphs

Current Projects 

• 2020-2023. Principal investigator. FONDECYT (Chilean National Funds for Science & Technology) Grant Nº 1201687 Camelids in the lowlands of the Atacama Desert: production, distribution and consumption of primary and secondary products, and images over time / Camélidos en las tierras bajas del Desierto de Atacama: producción, distribución y consumo de productos primarios, secundarios e imágenes a través del tiempo.
• 2020-2024. Co-investigator. FONDECYT (Chilean National Funds for Science & Technology) Grant Nº 1201786 Reconstructing Mobility, Settlement, Technology and Ecosystem Services-use in the Atacama Desert by the end of the Pleistocene.
• 2017-2021. Co-investigator. FONDECYT (Chilean National Funds for Science & Technology) Grant Nº 1171708 Violencia en la prehistoria del norte de Chile: un estudio multidisciplinario / Violence during the prehistory of northern Chile: a multidisciplinary study.
• 2019-2024. Collaborator. Grant SSHRC 435-2019-0657 Identifying Intensification in Prehispanic Andean Agropastoral Systems (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada). 

Selected Publications

1. Szpak P, Valenzuela D. 2020. Camelid husbandry in the Atacama Desert? A stable isotope study of camelid bone collagen and textiles from the Lluta and Camarones Valleys, northern Chile. PLoS ONE 15(3): e0228332. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228332 
2. Santoro CM; Castro V; Carter C; Valenzuela D. 2020. Marine Communities in the Atacama Desert: Masters of the Subtropical Pacific Coast of South America. In Maritime Communities of the Ancient Andes, edited by G. Prieto and D.H. Sandweiss, pp. 39-73. University Press of Florida. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/72229 
3. Alfonso-Durruty M; Gayo EM; Standen VG; Castro V; Latorre C; Santoro CM; Valenzuela D. 2019. Dietary diversity in the Atacama Desert during the Late Intermediate Period of northern Chile. Quaternary Science Reviews 214(15): 54-67. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.04.022
4. Valenzuela D, Cartajena I, Santoro CM, Castro V, Gayo EM. 2019. Andean caravan ceremonialism in lowlands Atacama Desert: the Cruces de Molinos archaeological site, northern Chile. Quaternary International 533: 37-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.09.016 
5. Valenzuela D, Clarkson PB. 2018. Geoglyphs. In Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (2º ed.), edited by C. Smith, pp. 1-13. Springer International Publishing, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1625-2 
6. Valenzuela D, Montt I. 2018. Exploring Rock Paintings, Engravings and Geoglyphs of the Atacama Desert through Materiality, Style, and Agency. In Archaeologies of Rock Art: South American Perspectives, edited by A. Troncoso, F. Amstrong and G. Nash, pp. 179-208. Routledge, London. https://www.routledge.com/Archaeologies-of-Rock-Art-South-American-Perspectives/Troncoso-Armstrong-Nash/p/book/9781138292673 
7. Valenzuela D, Castro V, Peredo R. 2018. El suri y el cóndor en el arte rupestre prehispánico del Desierto de Atacama. Revista Chilena de Ornitología 24(1): 3-14. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327848849_El_suri_y_el_condor_e...
8. Valenzuela D, Santoro CM, Capriles JM, Quinteros MJ, Peredo R, Gayo EM, Montt I, Sepúlveda M. 2015. Consumption of animals beyond diet in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile (13,000–410 BP): Comparing rock art motifs and archaeofaunal records. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 40:250-265. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2015.09.004
9. Valenzuela D, Santoro C, Briones L. 2011. Arte Rupestre, Tráfico Caravanero e Interacción Social: cuatro modalidades en el ámbito exorreico de los Valles Occidentales, Norte de Chile (períodos Intermedio Tardío y Tardío, ca. 1000-1535 d.C.). In En Ruta. Arqueología, Historia y Etnografía del Tráfico Sur Andino, edited by L. Núñez and A.E. Nielsen, pp. 199-246. Encuentro Grupo Editor, Córdoba-Argentina. 
10. Ross J, Valenzuela D, Hernández Llosas MI, Briones L, Santoro C. 2008. More than the Motifs: The Archaeological Analysis of Rock Art in Arid Regions of the Southern Hemisphere. Chungara Revista de Antropología Chilena 40: 35-56. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-73562008000300005