Laura Pereira Furquim

Archaeologist, Bachelor in History (FFLCH-USP), Master and PhD in Archaeology (MAE-USP). She has specialised in Amazonian Archaeology, focusing on studies of land management and cultivation practices, agriculture, plant uses, dietary patterns, and mobility during the Holocene in pre-colonial and colonial periods. She has experience in the application of methods and techniques from Archaeobotany, Organic Residue Analysis, and Stable Isotope Analysis in botanical remains, ceramics, and organic residues from archaeological sites. Her research encompasses shellmounds, sites with Amazonian Dark Earth, and sites with earthworks, such as geoglyphs and mounds. She also examines historical document sources to explore the impacts of European colonisation on indigenous networks, territoriality, and food security. She adopts collaborative methodologies and has experience in collection management and research alongside indigenous and traditional communities in the Amazon, within Indigenous Lands and Conservation Units. She was a CNPq fellow at the Archaeology Laboratory of the Mamirauá Institute for Sustainable Development (AM) and is a member of the Laboratory of Tropical Archaeology (MAE-USP), the Centre for Indigenous Amazonian Studies (NEAI-UFAM), and the isoTROPICS research group (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology), where she is a visiting researcher. Currently, she conducts archaeological investigations in partnership with the FPE-Purus (FUNAI) and indigenous organisations to monitor isolated indigenous peoples in the Amazon. She also collaborates on intercultural research projects, such as the "Embiara Project: Cosmologies and Techniques in Indigenous Amazonia" (Serrapilheira), research with the Amazonian Museum in the Upper Rio Negro, and with the IDSM in the Tenharin Indigenous Land through the project "Memorial Jiré: The Tenharin History through the Material Culture of Their Elders" (FAPEAM). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)