Eduardo Neves
Eduardo Neves
Professor of Archaeology - University of São Paulo
The Role of Indigenous Peoples in Creating the Amazonian Forests
February 06, 2025 - 12:00 PM
During the last decades, archaeology has shown that Indigenous people have had an important role in transforming nature and creating landscapes in the Amazon during the last 13,000 years. This presentation will show how such practices of forest making still endure today and how archaeology can reconstruct them in the past. It will also highlight the important role that Indigenous lands have to protect endangered forested areas in the Amazon.
Speaker Biography
Eduardo Neves - Professor of Archaeology, University of São Paulo
Eduardo Neves is a professor of archaeology at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He has been conducting archaeological research in the Amazon since the late 1980s and is the head of the National Geographic funded Amazon Revealed Project, which is LiDAR-mapping large areas of the Brazilian Amazon to identify archaeological sites in threatened areas.