Andrea Martínez-Carrasco

Early Career Researcher, Institute of Archaeology, University College London

ORCID 0000-0002-2392-878X

Dr Andrea Martínez-Carrasco is an early-career researcher at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Her work investigates state control over Inka-style pottery production in Central Chile, at the southern frontier of the Inka Empire. She has participated in archaeological research across the southern Andes, examining Inka interactions with local communities. Andrea applies macroscopic and archaeometric techniques to study ceramic technology, and her PhD research preliminary results received the 2025 Charles C. Kolb Award for Archaeological Ceramics from the Society for Archaeological Sciences.

BOOKS BY THIS CONTRIBUTOR

Digging into Pottery: Archaeological Ceramic Analysis around the World

ed. Andrea Martínez-Carrasco

This volume brings together studies on the scientific analysis of archaeological ceramics and related materials from around the world. Using petrography, geochemistry and related techniques, contributors investigate production, provenance and exchange across diverse archaeological contexts from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages. READ MORE

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