Prof. Dr. Ximena Suarez Villagran

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsPrehistory and World Archaeology,Geology
KeywordsGeoarchaeology, Coastal archaeology, Ceramic petrography, Micromorphology, Amazonia
Honours and awards

2022: Excellence for New Research Leadership in the Human Sciences

2012: Young Micromorphologist publication award

Current contact address

CountryBrazil
CitySao Paulo
InstitutionUniversidade de Sao Paulo (USP)
InstituteMuseum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Homepagehttps://sites.usp.br/labmicro

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Christopher MillerInstitut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Prof. Dr. Carla Jaimes BetancourtAbteilung für Altamerikanistik, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2014

Programme(s)

2014Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2020Strauss, André Mariano Rodrigues, Igor M. Baeta, Alenice Villagran, Ximena S. Alves, Marcony Pugliese, Francisco Bissaro, Marcos de Oliveira, Rodrigo Elias de Souza, Gustavo Neves Bueno, Lucas de Sousa, João Carlos Moreno Morrow, Johnica J. Reinhard, Karl J. Hermenegildo, Tiago Perez, Glauco Constantino Chim, Eliane Nunes de Oliveira dos Santos, Rafael de Paiva, Maurício Kipnis, Renato Neves, Walter: The Archaeological Record of Lagoa Santa (East-Central Brazil): From the Late Pleistocene to Historical Times. Springer, 2020
2019Ximena S. Villagran, André Strauss, Marcony Alves, Rodrigo E. Oliveira: Virtual micromorphology: The application of micro-CT scanning for the identification of termite mounds in archaeological sediments. In: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2019, 785-795
2018Ximena S. Villagran, Hans Huisman, Susan Mentzer, Christopher Miller, Miranda Jans: Bone and other skeletal tissue. In: Cristiano Nocisia, Georges Stoop, Archaeological Soil and Sediment Micromorphology. John Wiley and Sons, 2018. 11-38
2016Ximena S. Villagran, André Strauss, Cristopher Miller, Betrand Ligouis, Rodrigo Oliveira: Buried in ashes: Site formation processes at Lapa do Santo rockshelter, east-central Brazil. In: Journal of Archaeological Science, 2016,
2016Strauss, André Oliveira, Rodrigo Elias Villagran, Ximena S. Bernardo, Danilo V. Salazar-García, Domingo C. Bissaro, Marcos César Pugliese, Francisco Hermenegildo, Tiago Santos, Rafael Barioni, Alberto de Oliveira, Emiliano Castro Moreno de Sousa, João Carlos Jaouen, Klervia Ernani, Max Hubbe, Mark Inglez, Mariana Gratão, Marina Rockwell, H. Machado, Márcia de Souza, Gustavo Chemale, Farid Kawashita, Koji O'Connell, Tamsin C. Israde, Isabel Feathers, James Campi, Claudio Richards, Michael Wahl, Joachim Kipnis, Renato Araujo, Astolfo Neves, Walter: Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil). In: Antiquity, 90, 2016, 1454-1473