PhD professor at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE/USP). Director and founder of the Microarchaeology Laboratory (https://sites.usp.br/labmicro), head of the Graduate Program in Archaeology and president of the Graduate Committee of MAE/USP. Winner of the Excellence Award for New Research Leadership 2022 from the University of São Paulo, in the area of Human Sciences. The only USP professor in the field of Archaeology in Elsevier's 2022 ranking of high impact researchers. Graduated in Anthropological Sciences by the Universidad de La Republica (UdelaR), with Master in Archeology by MAE/USP. PhD in Sciences by the Institute of Geosciences (IGc/USP) and in Prehistoric Archeology by the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB). Post-doctoral fellow of the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation at the Institute for Archaeological Sciences (INA), University of Tübingen (Germany). She coordinates research projects on peopling of the Americas, landscape domestication in the South American lowlands and the maritime societies of the Atlantic coast of Brazil. She collaborates in research projects with the Universities of São Paulo, Universidad de la República, University of Texas-Arlington, Muséum National d'Historie Naturelle, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universidad de Chile and Universidad Católica del Perú. Experienced in the areas of Geoarchaeology and Microarchaeology, with emphasis on the analysis of archaeological sediments and ceramics using microscopy, infrared spectroscopy, x-ray fluorescence, scanning electron microscopy, and stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen.Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Identifying combustion features (anthropogenic fires) in very ancient archaeological sites is challenging, primarily due to the susceptibility of burned sediments to reworking and diagenesis over time, which makes microarchaeology essential to document their composition, preservation, and function. The use of FTIR spectroscopy for the study of archaeological sediments was introduced in 20…
The Brazilian coast was inhabited in pre-colonial times by fishing-based societies whose chronological and spatial extension is among the largest in South American indigenous history. These societies, of low residential mobility and dense demography, occupied a territory that covered thousands of kilometers along the Atlantic coast between c. 8500 and 1500 AP years and built the so-called…
Research on the earliest archaeological sites in South America is fundamental for discussing the peopling of the continent. South America contains the oldest coastal and inland occupations and its archaeological record shows a cultural contrast from early North American sites. However, studies on the earliest sites in South America are few and have rarely involved careful site formation p…
Identifying combustion features (anthropogenic fires) in very ancient archaeological sites is challenging, primarily due to the susceptibility of burned sediments to reworking and diagenesis over time, which makes microarchaeology essential to document their composition, preservation, and function. The use of FTIR spectroscopy for the study of archaeological sediments was introduced in 20…
The relative homogeneity of the archaeological record found in Brazilian shellmounds, as kown as sambaquis, has led to the hypothesis that these communities constitute an unique cultural system, with specificities developed at local level in response to complex interactions with environmental and anthropogenic factors. However, some authors address the differences that the artifact conten…
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The shells are archaeological sites whose matrixes are built from the anthropogenic accumulation of shells and organic matter. In Brazil these are called sambaquis and are located along the Atlantic coast and further inland, close to rivers and/or bays. Although sambaquis are present in almost all of the Brazilian coast, some areas have been systematically more researched, such as the sou…
This project aims to study the archaeological sediments of sites in the Brazilian Amazon, belonging to different landscapes, contexts and chronologies. Recent research in the Southwest Amazonian (Acre, Rondônia and Southern Amazonas) has demonstrated continuous human occupation since the beginning of the Holocene, with evidence of ancient ceramics, the formation of anthropic soils (dark e…
Early Holocene hunter-gatherer populations in the Lagoa Santa region, in Minas Gerais, had a diet with important vegetable consumption. The functionality of cutting and scraping of the region could indicate a function related to plant processing. In human remnants, there were observed large amounts of caries, which could have resulted or aggravated by the consumption of foods with a high …
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Shell middens are archaeological sites whose matrices are built from the anthropogenic accumulation of shells and organic matter. In Brazil, they are called sambaqui and are located along the Atlantic coast and further inland near rivers and/or bays. Although shell middens are present on almost the entire Brazilian coast, some areas have been systematically researched, such as the south a…
Archaeological research on the occupation of the Amazon shows that the activities of ancient indigenous populations contributed significantly to the establishment of the forest biome. Besides the intense management and domestication of various plant species, these populations also altered the landscape by increasing the productivity of the forest soils and constructing monumental structur…
This research proposal presented is destined to the development of an internship to be realized abroad in Argentina, the latinamerican country, under the foreign supervision of profesor, doctor and researcher from CONICET - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Mariano Bonomo. The researches part of this council, and part of Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo da…
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