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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation for the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
I have a bachelor's degree in Biological Sciences from the Biosciences Institute of the University of São Paulo (USP 1999), a master's degree (2002) and a doctorate from the same institution (2007). I worked as a researcher-curator at the Department of Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom (2006-2010) and then I did postdoctoral studies at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of USP (2011-2014). I was a lecturer at the Postgraduate Program in Archaeology (PPGArq) of the Dept. of Anthropology of the National Museum-UFRJ (2014-June 2018). I am currently a professor at the Dept. of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology of the Institute of Biosciences of the University of São Paulo and head of the Laboratory for Human Evolutionary Studies in this department. I have experience in Human Evolution, Bioarchaeology, Biological Anthropology and Archaeology, working mainly on the following subjects: human biocultural studies, human microevolutionary studies, Brazilian prehistoric settlement, cultural transmission in hunter-gatherers and application of statistical methods in archaeology. I am a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter (UK) and Associate of the Dept. of Human Evolutionary Biology (Harvard University) under the sponsorship of Professor David Reich. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Okumura (University of São Paulo [USP]) and Cochrane (University of Auckland [UA]) are allied researchers in bio-anthropology and archaeology specialising in evolutionary-ecological theory and related quantitative methods used to study the human past. Their research programmes examine past populations focusing on demography, population interaction, and technological variation related to s…
The Ribeira de Iguape Valley, located in the south of the State of São Paulo, is one of the rare Brazilian regions that presents prehistoric human occupations, preserving both human skeletal remnants and their material culture, throughout the Holocene. Therefore, this place presents itself as an ideal one for understanding long-lived human settlement, including issues of contact, identity…
Faunal remains are a fundamental part of the study of archaeological sites, where questions related to diet, bone artifacts, and other important cultural aspects can be further explored. Inhabited by human groups since the beginning of the Holocene, the Vale do Ribeira de Iguape, in southern São Paulo state, presents great paleontological and zooarchaeological potential, especially due to…
Several Paleoindian sites in Brazil, especially in the Southern and Central regions of the country, are known due to decades of excavations on those areas since the 1960's. However, few systematic analysis of the material culture of those Paleoindian sites have been done until this day. Archaeological literature from Brazil usually classifies only two archaeological cultures for the Paleo…
The construction of mounds was a common habit in several prehistoric populations around the world. In Brazil, there are several prehistoric prehistoric sites that can be described as mounds, among them, coastal shell mounds, Pantanal embankments, Cerritos in the south of the country and riverine shell mounds. In relation to the latter, the Ribeira de Iguape River Valley stands out as a re…
It has been proposed that the Umbu tradition, whose definition is based on the presence of bifacial points, originated in Southeastern Brazil around 10,000 BP, and it could be still observed around 1,500 BP. So far, very few chronological markers have been identified. That, together with its extended chronological frame, has resulted in much controversy about the actual existence of such …
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