Department of Anthropology

Pamela Lara Tufiño is a PhD student in Archaeology at the Anthropology Department and a research associate of the Center of Underwater Science at IU. She is also a certified diver. 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 conducted research in Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Colombia. She runs the Media Luna Underwater Archaeology Project at San Luis Potosi, Mexico, in association with the Underwater Archaeology Department at the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico.