Munro Lecture - Professor Eduardo G. Neve: 'How old is the Anthropocene in Amazonia?' This Munro Lecture is now passed, but you can view a recording below: Image The Amazon is an independent center of plant domestication and the earliest center of ceramic production in the Americas. It is also an area where a tradition of artificial mound building and creation of anthropic soils by Indigenous people started in the Early Holocene and lasted until a few years ago. These practices have left a noticeable mark on contemporary landscapes in the area, but they never led to the emergence of the state nor to the total replacement of non-domesticated plants in local Indigenous economies. The talk will show how the understanding of the deep history of landscape creation by Indigenous people in SW Amazonia may present different conceptual perspectives for archaeology. It will also show the major contrast between such millennial scale histories and the current wave of environmental destruction and social violence there. Eduardo G. Neves is Professor of Brazilian Archaeology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Since the 1990s he has worked in different areas of the Brazilian Amazon aiming to align archaeology with Indigenous and environmental history. He is currently co-leading with Prof Francis Mayle, from Reading University, an international project on the landscape history of Southwestern Amazon in Bolivia and Brazil. He has published widely on Amazonian archaeology and is currently organizing the chapter on archaeology of the UN-sponsored Science Panel for the Amazon. He received a research award by the Shanghai Archaeological Forum in 2019. (Image: Rafael Verissimo) May 27 2021 17.30 - 19.00 Munro Lecture - Professor Eduardo G. Neve: 'How old is the Anthropocene in Amazonia?' This Munro Lecture was delivered by Professor Eduardo G. Neves from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Join the Munro Lecture
Munro Lecture - Professor Eduardo G. Neve: 'How old is the Anthropocene in Amazonia?' This Munro Lecture is now passed, but you can view a recording below: Image The Amazon is an independent center of plant domestication and the earliest center of ceramic production in the Americas. It is also an area where a tradition of artificial mound building and creation of anthropic soils by Indigenous people started in the Early Holocene and lasted until a few years ago. These practices have left a noticeable mark on contemporary landscapes in the area, but they never led to the emergence of the state nor to the total replacement of non-domesticated plants in local Indigenous economies. The talk will show how the understanding of the deep history of landscape creation by Indigenous people in SW Amazonia may present different conceptual perspectives for archaeology. It will also show the major contrast between such millennial scale histories and the current wave of environmental destruction and social violence there. Eduardo G. Neves is Professor of Brazilian Archaeology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Since the 1990s he has worked in different areas of the Brazilian Amazon aiming to align archaeology with Indigenous and environmental history. He is currently co-leading with Prof Francis Mayle, from Reading University, an international project on the landscape history of Southwestern Amazon in Bolivia and Brazil. He has published widely on Amazonian archaeology and is currently organizing the chapter on archaeology of the UN-sponsored Science Panel for the Amazon. He received a research award by the Shanghai Archaeological Forum in 2019. (Image: Rafael Verissimo) May 27 2021 17.30 - 19.00 Munro Lecture - Professor Eduardo G. Neve: 'How old is the Anthropocene in Amazonia?' This Munro Lecture was delivered by Professor Eduardo G. Neves from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Join the Munro Lecture
May 27 2021 17.30 - 19.00 Munro Lecture - Professor Eduardo G. Neve: 'How old is the Anthropocene in Amazonia?' This Munro Lecture was delivered by Professor Eduardo G. Neves from the University of São Paulo, Brazil.
