Agustina Scaro is a Post Doc in Inbot (Industrial Robotics Facility). After graduating with honours from the National University of Jujuy in 2010 in Anthropology with archaeological orientation, she completed her Ph.D. in 2016 at the University of Buenos Aires with the highest grades. Since the beginning of her PhD she has led fieldwork teams, laboratory studies, and database development in national and international archaeological projects. In 2020, she started directing research projects related to landscapes and materialities in the north of Argentina (Landscapes and materialities in Tumbaya (Quebrada de Humahuaca) and From Tilcara to Tumbaya: Social trajectories in the last 2000 years of pre-Hispanic occupation). During her previous Post Doc position, she has carried out internships in centres of scientific excellence as an invited researcher, among which the Institute of Heritage Sciences (CSIC, Spain), the Laboratory UMR Trajectoires (University of Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, France), and the Laboratory of Archaeometry (University of Granada, Spain) stand out. The different research and formation experiences have allowed her to acquire and deepen theoretical, technical, and methodological aspects and promote mutual interdisciplinary collaboration with projects and their members.
Her research has focused on archaeological landscapes from a comprehensive perspective, incorporating materiality studies (pottery and architecture). She has conducted studies mainly in the South-Central Andes (Northwestern Argentina), as well as Sinai (Egypt) with the objective of understanding the impact of empires on local societies and the processes around conquest, domination, and resistance. Pottery analysis has been one of the main lines, considering stylistic, morpho-metric, and technological studies. With this aim, she has worked with a network of colleagues from different disciplines and archaeological areas, encouraging the development and incorporation of photogrammetry, 3D reconstructions, and Databases into the practice. She has collaborated on numerous international research projects.
She has worked with different digital techniques in the study of Cultural Heritage, including defect detection of pottery surface for manufacturing and use analyses, and she has created digital twins of cultural heritage objects and sites for science communication in different contexts, specially standing out the elaboration of the 3D model of a rock art site using Photogrammetry, presented as part of the temporary exhibition titled “Quebrada de Humahuaca: Art in the Landscape. Narratives and images of agropastoral societies in the Andes of Argentina”, curated for the National Museum of Altamira, Spain.
