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A native Chilean Dr. Alfonso-Durruty researches prehistoric human remains from Chile. In her studies, Dr. Alfonso-Durruty examines the health status and degree of environmental and social adaptation, as well as the social dynamics of past populations. Dr. Alfonso-Durruty is particularly interested on the effects of diet on health, the health consequences of the transition to agriculture, gender and social status differences, and the bioarchaeology of hunter-gatherers, specially in Patagonia.
Dr. Alfonso Durruty is a National Geographic Explorer (since 2015), and it is an international collaborator on several research grants in Chile. Her current research projects are on: 1) genetic origins of prehistoric and living Native groups from Fuego-Patagonia, Chile, 2) the peopling of the Atacama Desert, 3) dietary diversity and changes in prehistoric groups from the semiarid region of Chile, and 4) Dietary changes in prehistoric groups from Northern Chile. Dr. Alfonso-Durruty specializes in osteological and dental analysis.
Dr. Alfonso-Durruty is the bioarchaeology Associate Editor of Chungara, and Magallania. For more information see Dr. Alfonso-Durruty's Curriculum Vitae.
Alfonso-Durruty MP, Blom D (eds). 2023. Foodways of the Ancient Andes. Transforming
diet, cuisine and society. University of Arizona Press.
Blom D, Alfonso-Durruty MP. 2023. Introduction: the transformative nurture of food. In:
Foodways of the Ancient Andes. Transforming diet, cuisine, and society. University of
Arizona Press.
Alfonso-Durruty MP, Misarti N, Tronscoso A. 2023. The Dietary Impact of the Inka’s
Political Strategies in the Semi- Arid Region (30°– 31° S. Lat) of Northern Chile. In:
Foodways of the Ancient Andes. Transforming diet, cuisine, and society. University of
Arizona Press.
Troncoso A., Pacual D., Escudero, A, Hernández D, Pino M, González R, Alfonso-Durruty M, López P, Misarti N, Chávez MA, Belmar C, Moya F, Méndez C, Vera F, Villalón D, Becker C. (Under Review) Cazadores-Recolectores-Pescadores Del Holoceno Medio-Tardío en el Norte Semiárido de Chile: Revisitando Punta Teatinos (29°S). Latin Amercian Antiquity.
Balentine CM†, Alfonso-Durruty MP†, Reynolds AW, Vilar M, Morello F, San Román M, Springs LC, Smith RW, Archer SM, Mata-Míguez J, Wing N, Bolnick D. 2023. Evaluating population histories in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, Chile, using ancient mitochondrial and Y-chromosomal DNA. American Journal of Biological 180 (1): 144-161. † These authors contributed equally to this paper.
Alfonso-Durruty MP , Palacios C, Morello F. 2021. Haunting Bodies: Lethal violence in three Late Holocene Pre-Contact Hunter-Gatherers of southernmost Patagonia (52-56°S, Chile). Bioarchaeology International 5 (1-2): 68-77.
Nakatsuka N, Lazaridis I, Barbieri C, Llamas B, Skoglund P, Rohland, Mallick S, Posth C, Haking-Kinkaid K, Ferry M, Harney E, Michel M, Stewardson K, Novak-Frost J, Capriles JM, Alfonso-Durruty MP, /…./ 2020. Paleogenomic reconstruction of the deep population history of the Andes. Cell 181:1131-1145.
Alfonso-Durruty MP, Gayo EM, Standen V, Castro V, Latorre C, Santoro CM, Valenzuela D. 2019.Dietary diversity in the Atacama Desert during the Late Intermediate Period in northern Chile. Quaternary Science reviews 214: 54-67.
Moreno-Mayar JV, Vinner L, de Barros Damgaard P, de la Fuente C, Chan J, Spence JP, Allentoft ME, Vimala M, Racimo F, Pinotti T, Rasmussen S, Margaryan A, Iraeta Orbegozo M, Mylopotamitaki D, Wooller M, Bataille C, Becerra-Valdivia L, Chivall D, Comeskey D, Devièse T, Grayson DK, George L, Harry H, Alexandersen V, Primeau C, Erlandson J, Rodrigues-Carvalho C, Reis S, Bastos MQR, Cybulski J, Vullo C, Morello F, Vilar M, Wells S, Gregersen K, Lykke Hansen K, Lynnerup N, Mirazón Lahr M, Kjær K, Strauss A, Alfonso-Durruty MP, Salas A, Schroeder H, Higham T, Malhi RS, Rasic JT, Souza L, Santos FR, Malaspinas A-S, Sikora M, Nielsen R, Song YS, Meltzer DJ, Willerslev E. 2019. Early human dispersals within the Americas. Science 362: 1128-1139.
Alfonso-Durruty MP, Valeggia C. 2018. Talla, peso e índice de masa corporal en niños y niñas wichí de Formosa, Argentina. Archivos de Pediatría Argentina (Height,weight and body mass index of Wichí children from Formosa, Argentina). Arch Argent Pediat 116(5): 359-364.
Alfonso-Durruty MP, Morello F, Misarti N, Vilar MG, Headley D. 2018. Exploring the potentials and limitations of 3D printing in the preservation and replication of ancient teeth. Archaeologies. Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 14(2): 299-316.
Hassett BR, Rando C, Bocaege E, Alfonso-Durruty MP, Hirst C, Smith S, Ferreira Ulguim P, White S, Wilson A. 2018. Transcript of WAC 8 Digital Bioarchaeological Ethics Panel Discussion, 29 August 2016 and Resolution on Ethical Use of Digital Bioarchaeological Data. Archaeologies. Journal of the World Archaeological Congress 14(2): 317-337.
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