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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Inglaterra
Archaeologist and lecturer at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo. Specializes in microarcheobotanical analyses to study the relationships between people, plants, and landscapes in the Amazon. She has received awards from the Scopus/Fullbright Commission (Young Researcher of the Year UK - Arts and Humanities, 2013) and the Dean's Office for Research and Innovation at USP (Excellence Award for New Research Leaders - Human Sciences, 2025). Coordinator of Archaebotany at the Microarchaeology Laboratory and a member of the Laboratory of Tropical Archaeology (MAE-USP) and the Micropaleontology Laboratory (IGC-USP). Administrator of the REFtropica database (www.reftropica.com). Holder of a Research Productivity Grant (PQ-2) from CNPq. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The project proposes to study Amazonian biodiversity and its interactions with native peoples, in the long term, within three regions characterized by complex sociocultural systems: the Xingu Indigenous Territory (TIX, Matto Grosso state); the Upper Negro Indigenous Territory (TI ARN, Amazonas state); and the Kayapó Indigenous Territory (TIKayapó, Pará state). These territories stand out …
Over the last five years, debates surrounding the extent to which pre-colonial societies were involved in shaping Amazonian forests have intensified to sit once again at the forefront of discussions within the archaeological and ecological disciplines, while also winning public interest. Despite the advances in empirical data that are being gained, there are two key issues, which are curr…
The present project seeks to understand the nature and spatial distribution of past agricultural and forest management practices in the Xingu Indigenous Territory (TIX), Mato Grosso state, Brazil. Over thirty years of collaborative archaeological research with the Kuikuro has identified dozens of pre-Columbian settlement sites, ritual centres, roads, paths, and associated Dark Earth patch…
Pre-Columbian domestic areas play a significant role in providing information about the lives and societies of indigenous populations, serving as witnesses to cultural, technological, social systems, and human-environmental interaction aspects. This research project focuses on investigating a possible housing unit associated with the Jatuarana ceramic subtradition at the Teotônio archaeol…
Cerritos are mound archaeological sites, composed predominantly of soil, that occur in the Pampa biome between southern Brazil, Uruguay and northeastern Argentina, between ca 5 thousand and 0.2 thousand BP. Recent research has demonstrated that the construction of these mounds is associated with environmental management strategies in the creation of domesticated landscapes and human niche…
The development of economic systems based on food production is a fundamental issue in human history. Although well recognized in certain parts of America, this phenomenon is still poorly understood in Central Brazil. In part, this is because in this region this process occurs throughout the Middle Holocene, a period notable for the drastic decrease in the density of the archaeological re…
This research has the goal of understanding long-term indigenous history through the diachronical investigation of ceramic from the Monte Castelo archaeological site. These ceramics belong to the Sinimbu and Bacabal phases, whose early chronologies mean they are inserted within debates surrounding the oldest ceramic technologies in the Amazon. The Sinimbu phase, beginning roughly 5,800 B.…
This project, destined for an undergraduate student of Computer Sciences or similar, entails designing and creating an online database of reference collection images of phytoliths, starch grains, and carbonized fruits and seeds. The database must be comprehensive, simple to use, and of high enough quality to be useful to archaeobotanists searching for taxonomic identifications of plant re…
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The analysis of lipid residues preserved in ceramic fragments is a cutting-edge technique that offers deeper insights into the function and meaning of pottery in past food preparation and subsistence strategies. While well-established in certain regions, such as Europe and North America, this technique is still relatively unexplored in Brazil, particularly in contexts like those of the Ce…
The analysis of lipid residues preserved in ceramic fragments is a cutting-edge technique that offers deeper insights into the function and meaning of pottery in past food preparation and subsistence strategies. While well-established in certain regions, such as Europe and North America, this technique is still relatively unexplored in Brazil, particularly in contexts like those of the Ce…
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