Eduardo Herrera Malatesta
Postdoc
- Name
- Dr. E.N. Herrera Malatesta
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- e.n.herrera.malatesta@arch.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5265-6296
Eduardo Herrera Malatesta is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.
Current research
Eduardo is part of Alex Geurds’ project Resilience as human–environmental engagement: Sustainability in pre-Columbian Central America (VICI-NWO). Within this fascinating project, Eduardo’s research will focus on addressing three of the VICI’s main aims, i.e., to explore the ways of how humans relate to local flora and fauna, area-wide patterns of historically documented human-environmental relations, and distinctive forms of depicting surroundings through material culture. For this, two case studies will be explore. First, the Muisca territory, located in the region of Cundinarmarca (Colombia), where he will use advanced spatial statistical methods to assess how the settlement pattern might or might not be related to agricultural practices in the past. The second case study will be in the region of the Colombian and Venezuelan llanos, where he will use a combination of dataset to explore the human adaptation and responses to this challenging environment.
This project will create an interdisciplinary database using existing archaeological, ethnographical, linguistic, and ethnohistorical data, as well as environmental data coming from geomorphology, geology, soils, precipitation index, and water sources. Since all attributes will have spatial information, this database will be easily able to be integrated into a GIS environment and benefit from the powerful analytical tools of this system. To further analyse this large-scale and complex database, a series of spatial statistical and spatial network analyses will be considered. This spatiotemporal multiscalar approach will allow the understanding of the development of societies through time and space and its relationship with the landscape. Even more, the models to be created will allow us to understand how the small and linguistically diverse groups inhabiting today’s Colombia were successful at mitigating the impact of regional geographical challenges and changes in the area and maintaining societal stability.
Curriculum vitae
Eduardo Herrera Malatesta is a Venezuelan archaeologist specialising in landscape research, regional analyses, and computational archaeology, specifically geographical information systems (GIS) and spatial statistics. He studied anthropology with a specialisation in archaeology at the Universidad Central de Venezuela (BA) and the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas (MA). He then specialised in GIS in archaeology at University College London (MSc), and later, he got his PhD in archaeology at Leiden University. He has held postdoctoral positions at Leiden University and at Aarhus University as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow. He has recently started a position as a postdoctoral researcher at Leiden University.
Postdoc
- Faculteit Archeologie
- World Archaeology
- Archaeology of the Americas
- Corcoran-Tadd N.E., Ulloa Hung J., Antczak A.T., Herrera Malatesta E.N. & Hofman C.L. (2021), Indigenous Routes and Resource Materialities in the Early Spanish Colonial World: Comparative Archaeological Approaches, Latin American Antiquity 32(3): 468-485.
- Herrera Malatesta E.N. & Hofman C.L. (2019), Indigenous Landscape Transformation on Northern Haytí: An Archaeological and Environmental Database of the Montecristi Coast, Journal of Open Archaeology Data 7(2): 1-5.
- Hofman C.L., Ulloa Hung J., Herrera Malatesta E.N., Jean J.S., Sonnemann T.F. & Hoogland M.L.P. (2018), Indigenous Caribbean perspectives: archaeologies and legacies of the first colonised region in the New World, Antiquity 92(361): 200-216.
- Herrera Malatesta E.N. (15 March 2018), Una isla, dos mundos : estudio arqueológico sobre el paisaje indígena de Haytí y su transformación al paisaje colonial de La Española (1200-1550) (Dissertatie, Archaeology, Leiden University). Leiden: Sidestone Press. Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Hofman C.L. & Kolen J.C.A., Ulloa Hung J.
- Castilla-Beltrán A., Hooghiemstra H., Hoogland M.L.P., Pagan Jimenez J.R., Geel B. van, Field M.H., Prins M., Donders T., Herrera Malatesta E.N., Ulloa Hung J., McMichael C.H., Gosling W.D. & Hofman C.L. (2018), Columbus' Footprint in Hispaniola: A paleoenvironmental record of Indigenous and Colonial impacts on the landscape of the central Cibao Valley, northern Dominican Republic, Anthropocene 22: 66-80.
- Angelo D. & Herrera Malatesta E.N. (2018), Sobre la Posibilidad de Otros Paisajes: Convenciones, paisajes, humo, memorias y monumentos, Chungara 50(2): 269-271.
- Sonnemann T.F., Comer D.C., Patsolic J.L., Megarry W.P., Herrera Malatesta E.N. & Hofman C.L. (2017), Semi-Automatic Detection of Indigenous Settlement Features on Hispaniola through Remote Sensing Data, Geosciences 7(4): 1-15.
- Herrera Malatesta E.N. (2017), Indigenous Landscape Transformations in Colonial Times (data file and codebook). The Netherlands: DANS Easy. [dataset].
- Herrera Malatesta E.N. (2017), Understanding ancient patterns: Predictive Modeling for field research in Northern Dominican Republic. Velasquez Christopher B. & Haviser Jay B. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Congress of the IACA. International Association For Caribbean Archaeology (IACA) 19 July 2015 - 25 July 2015 no. 88-97. Sint Maarten: SIMARC Heritage Series.
- Sonnemann T.F., Herrera Malatesta E.N. & Hofman C.L. (2016), Applying UAS Photogrammetry To Analyse Spatial Patterns Of Indigenous Settlement Sites In The Northern Dominican Republic. In: Forte M. & Campana S. (Eds.), Digital Methods And Remote Sensing In Archaeology: Archaeology in the Age of Sensing. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. 71-87.
- Herrera Malatesta E.N. (21 November 2016), Invisible Landscapes: Colonialism And History In Montecristi. NEXUS 1492 Website. Leiden, The Netherlands: NEXUS 1492. [blog entry].
- Ulloa Hung J. & Herrera Malatesta E.N. (2015), Investigaciones arqueologicas en el norte de la Española. Entre viejos esquemas y nuevos datos, Boletín del Museo del Hombre Dominicano XLII(46): 75-107.
- Herrera Malatesta E.N. (2015), Workshop for the NEXUS 1492 exhibition in Montecristi. [other].
- Herrera Malatesta E.N., Survey In The Montecristi Province. Survey In The Montecristi Province: http://www.nexus1492.eu/. [blog entry].
- Herrera Maletesta E.N, Sonnemann T.F & Hofman C.L. (2014), Approaches to Amerindian landscapes in the Northern Dominican Republic. Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC), Rome. 17 September 2014 - 20 September 2014. [conference poster].
- Sonnemann T.F., Herrera Malatesta E.N., Ruiter S. de, Slayton E., Stancioff E., Vermeer J. & Hofman C.L. (2014), Digital Encounters in the Caribbean. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Paris. 22 April 2014 - 25 April 2014. [conference poster].
- Sonnemann T.F., Herrera Malatesta E. & Hofman C.L. (2014), Remote Sensing & Ground Survey Approach to Map and Interpret Amerindian & Colonial Landscapes. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Paris. 22 April 2014 - 25 April 2014. [conference poster].