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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at História from Universidade de São Paulo (1986) and ph.d. at Arqueologia from Indiana University (1997). Has experience in Archaeology, acting on the following subjects: arqueologia, arqueologia amazônica, amazônia, terras pretas and amazonian indians. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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| The interconnected peoples of ancient Amazon |
| Los pueblos interconectados de la Amazonia antigua |
| Había más gente en la selva |
| More people in the rainforest |
| Abono precolombino |
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MAE/USP constantly seeks to improve its infrastructure conditions to promote, with quality and expansion of access, research activities with the institutional collection. The collections of the Museum are constantly growing, either by the research carried out, especially in the area of Brazilian archaeology, or by the donations of collections areas of research of the institution. This pro…
In partnership with indigenous communities, the Indigenous Documentation Center will combine collaborative research, teaching and cultural dissemination by enabling the creation of a digital repository of collections based on qualified documentation of linguistic and cultural knowledge of indigenous peoples in Brazil and neighbor countries. Structured from two major lines of research (lin…
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…
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)
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…
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The Amazon Rainforest has an extraordinary human history, shaped over the past 12,000 years by continuous practices of domestication and environmental management rooted in the sophisticated knowledge of Indigenous and traditional peoples. These practices, which still resonate in the memory and identity of contemporary communities, are facing severe threats due to the intensified extractio…
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…
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 …
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…
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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…
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 …
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…
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| 3 / 3 | Ongoing grants |
| 7 / 6 | Completed research grants |
| 1 / 1 | Ongoing scholarships in Brazil |
| 34 / 12 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
| 5 / 5 | Completed scholarships abroad |
| 50 / 27 | All research grants and scholarships |
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