Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois Chicago This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Maria Isabel Guevara-Duque is an Ecuadorian archaeologist and Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago, currently the Women in Science Graduate Fellow at the Field Museum. She holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Archaeological Materials Science from the Universidade de Évora, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and Sapienza University of Rome. Maria Isabel has conducted archaeological fieldwork in Ecuador and the U.S. and contributed to collections-based research at the Field Museum. Her research focuses on copper acquisition, consumption, and circulation in precolonial Ecuador, where she is building the country’s first comprehensive metallurgical database. Using pXRF, LA-ICP-MS, and Pb isotope analyses, she studies Andean metallurgy and Ecuador’s role in broader social and political networks. She promotes inclusive, interdisciplinary research and collaborates at the Field Museum’s Elemental Analysis Facility.

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/maisaguevara-duque
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