Pamela Lara Tufiño

Pamela Lara Tufiño

Degree Program: Ph.D.

About Pamela Lara Tufiño

Pamela Lara Tufiño is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology. She received her bachelor’s degree in archaeology from the National School of Anthropology and History in Mexico. Since 2015, she has conducted underwater archaeology projects as a research associate at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico. Her research integrates underwater archaeology, relationality, iconography, and analysis of Indigenous religions to study people’s relationships with bodies of water (and their materiality) from prehispanic to contemporary times. She has participated in archaeological and ethnographic research projects in Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia. She is also a certified rescue, sidemount, cavern, and intro to cave diver.

Selected publications

Lara Tufino, Pamela, y Roberto Junco. 2024. «CHEM, EL HERMANO DE LOS COCODRILOS. NOTAS SOBRE LA ELABORACIÓN TRADICIONAL DE EMBARCACIONES ENTRE LOS MAYAS LACANDONES DE METZABOK». Universum (Talca. En línea) 39 (2):461-82. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0718-23762024000200461

Lara Tufiño, Pamela. 2023. «Media Luna, un manantial sagrado en San Luis Potosí». Cuadernos de Arqueología de Sitios Subacuáticos y Marítimos de México 1 (5): 1-18.

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