María Patricia Ordóñez is an ecuadorian archaeologists. She holds a PhD and MA in Archaeology (2014) from Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands). She also holds a Master's degree in Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology from Cranfield University (England). Currently she teaches at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador) in the Anthropology Department. Previously she served as Director of Research and Innovation at the National Institute of Cultural Heritage (Ecuador) and curator of the Casa del Alabado Museum (Ecuador) as well as a consultant in heritage and archaeology projects, as guest curator at the Museo Nacional del Ecuador (MUNA), the Museo Jacinto Jijón y Caamaño (Ecuador) and as researcher at the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (Netherlands). Her work focuses on the formation and use of collections of human remains in the Andean area and Western Europe.
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