Victor Nery Canadas Pedroso

Masters student in Archaeology at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of São Paulo (MAE-USP) and bachelor's degree in History (2024) from the Faculty of Philosophy, Languages and Literature, and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP). He engages in research and scientific dissemination at the Research and Dissemination Center for Human Evolution of the Institute of Advanced Studies (NPDEH-IEA-USP), under the supervision of Walter Neves. Since 2021, he has been a member of the Laboratory of Environmental and Evolutionary Archaeology and Anthropology (LAAAE-USP), where he conducted an undergraduate research project funded by FAPESP under the supervision of André Strauss. As part of this research, he completed an internship at the Musée de l'Homme, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN) in Paris, France, under the supervision of Antoine Lourdeau. For his masters research, he investigates the hypothesis of six different funerary practices at Lapa do Santo throughout the Early Holocene. During his undergraduate research, he curated the orphaned collection"Estado do Piauí" at MAE-USP and conducted a techno-functional analysis of the lithic artifacts from Serra da Capivara present in this collection. He has curated several brazilian archaeological sites, such as Lapa do Boquete (MG) and Lapa do Santo (MG), coordinated the CT-scaning project of MAE-USPs collections, and participated in archaeological excavations in Romania, and Brazil, at the states of Santa Catarina, Minas Gerais, Bahia, and Pará. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)