Eduardo Góes Neves

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  This book provides for the first time a synthesis of the archaeology of the Central Amazon, based on the author's 15 years of field research in this area, together with his collaborators. (AU)

  Under Equinox times: a 8000 year-history of Central Amazon, PUB.LVR.BR

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  One of the major research problems of South American Archeology is to explain the unequal process of emergence of social hierarchies, political centralization, and state along the continent. Throughout the twentieth century, archaeologists have proposed that the Central Andres would have been a kind of nuclear area where elements such as urbanism, sedentary life and agriculture would have…

  Human-environment relationships in Pre-Columbian Amazonia, AP.TEM

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  There is currently an intense debate about the role played by indigenous peoples in the past in transforming nature and creating landscapes in the Amazon. Most archaeologists accept the hypothesis that Amazonia has been deeply modified in the past, as can be seen from the distribution of large archaeological sites throughout the region. Such modifications became visible from about 2,500 A…

  The archaeology of the Middle Holocene and the beginning of landscape domestication in the Amazon, AP.R

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  This research has as a goal, to analyze two ceramics samples from Sambaqui Monte Castelo's Bacabal Phase. The first group is associated with a layer where we can identify several burials while the other isn't. By ceramic analysis, I intend to identify its differences with the goal of establishing or don't intentionality in its depositional location and so help to better understand the cul…

  Correlations between ceramics and burials: Monte Castelos Bacabal Phase, BP.IC

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  This project will apply analyzes of microbotanic traces (phytoliths and starch grains) within the Bolivian archaeological sites included in the PIMA project. Such sites consist of lomas, artificial mounds that have been built and occupied by indigenous populations since the early holocene. Better understanding the chronological and archaeological variability of the lomas is a fundamental …

  Microbotanical analyzes in mound sites of the Bolivian Amazon, BP.PD

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  Recent research confirms that the stratigraphic layers of the mid to upper Holocene of the Monte Castelo sambaqui (Shellmound - São Francisco do Guaporé - RO) have a high density of human burials, characterizing the site as an eminent funerary monument of the Southwestern Amazon during that period. Ongoing excavations have evidenced a representative set of these funerary structures and th…

  Human mobility in the ancient Amazon isotopic archaeology of burials from the Monte Castelo shellmound and the bioavailability of strontium in the South America lowlands, BP.PD

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  The aim of this project is to conduct archaeological analyses of the paleodiet of human populations from the southwestern Amazon at the end of the pre-colonial period, between 1000-1600 A.D. We will seek to characterize the use of local plant and animal biodiversity, as well as the ways of cultivating corn on the eve of European colonization, in order to understand the impacts of this con…

  Paleodiets and plant cultivation in the Southwestern Amazon during the Late Holocene (1,000 - 1,500 CE) from archaeobotanical isotopes and ceramic lipid analysis, BE.EP.DR

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  This project proposes to carry out isotopic analysis of strontium, focusing on mapping the signatures of dental enamels and other biological materials from the Monte Castelo shellmound, comparing them with data from other sites, such as Hatahara, in the Central Amazon, and Gruta do Gentio II, near the Central Brazil Amazonian headwaters of the Upper Tocantins River. Monte Castelo (MC) is …

  Human mobility in the Ancient Amazon: isotopic archaeology and the bioavailability of strontium in the South America lowlands, BE.EP.PD

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  This research is looking to integrate two fundamental aspects of archaeological ceramics analysis, to discuss technology and its cultural and historical meanings. The intention of this project is to produce a technological and stylistic characterization of the Pocó-Açutuba ceramics of the Upper Madeira River and a regional macro comparison between this ancient polychromic pottery in the A…

  Comparative petrographic and formal analyzes of ancient ceramics from tropical South America and the Caribbean, BE.EP.DR

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