Aránzazu Vaquero GonzálezRestorerPontevedra Museum
Aránzazu Vaquero González is a conservator-restorer who trained at the Higher School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage of Galicia (where she earned a diploma in 2004 and a bachelor’s degree in 2019), specializing in archaeology. She earned a Master’s degree in Professional Archaeology and Comprehensive Heritage Management from the University of Alicante (2011). She also trained in the specialty of Artistic Ceramics at the School of Arts in Granada (1999) and has been an Official Tour Guide authorized by the Xunta de Galicia since 2019.
Since 1988, she has participated in numerous archaeological and paleontological excavations at sites from various historical periods both within and outside Spain, and has extensive training in courses on Archaeology, Art, Restoration, and Egyptology, notably those on Hieroglyphic Language, and Mummification in Ancient Egypt, taken at the Center for Studies of the Near East and Late Antiquity (CEPOAT) at the University of Murcia, a graduate program in Egyptology, and a course on natural and artificial mummification, specifically Egyptian mummification, both at the University of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid).
Her experience and interests granted her the opportunity to be part of the Catalan mission at the settlement of Wadi Sikait, directed by Joan Oller (Autonomous University of Barcelona), at Wadi el-Gemal National Park, Egypt, during the 2020 campaign. Laura carried out photography, inventory, and archaeological support tasks.
Thanks to her previous studies and research, Laura is now learning and specializing in space synthax techniques to be able to understand and study the planning approaches of various Egyptian settlements.
The past two years she has been assisting at various congresses like the III Virtual Conference for Women Archaeologists and Paleontologists, the Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History, the Congreso Iberoamericano de Jóvenes Investigadores en Egiptología, the Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica or the Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores en Paleontología; presenting her various research, “Archaeological and spatial analysis of the Egyptian city of Lahun (Middle-Kingdom, Fayum)”, “Estudio de los praesidia del Desierto Oriental Egipcio” and “Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of an hadrosaurid dinosaur jugal form the latest cretaceous barranc de la Costa Gran locality (Lleida, Spain)” (showing the results of her master dissertation).
