Eduardo Góes Neves is professor of archaeology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is known for his work directing the Central Amazon Project from 1995 to 2010.
Career edit
Neves received his PhD from Indiana University in 1997.[1]
In 2005, his colleague, American archaeologist James Petersen, died after he was shot when the pair were robbed at a restaurant in the Brazilian Amazon.[2]
He was Capes visiting professor for 2016-17 at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. He was president of the Brazilian Archaeological Society.[3]
He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the archaeology journal Antiquity.[4]
Selected publications edit
Books edit
- Arqueologia da Amazônia. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2006
- Unknown Amazon: Culture in Nature in Ancient Brazil. British Museum Press, London, 2001. (Joint editor) ISBN 978-0714125589
Articles and chapters edit
- "Archaeological Cultures and Past Identities in Precolonial Central Amazon", in Alf Hornborg; Jonathan Hill. (Ed.). Ethnicity in Ancient Amazonia: Reconstructing Past Identities from Archaeology, Linguistics, and Ethnohistory. Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2010.
- "Warfare in Pre-Colonial Amazonia: When Carneiro Meets Clastres", in Axel Nilsen; William Walker. (Eds.). Warfare in Cultural Context: Practice Theory and the Archaeology of Violence. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2009.
- "Ecology, Ceramic Chronology and Distribution, Long-Term History and Political Change in the Amazonian Floodplain" in Helaine Silvermann; William Isbell. (Eds.) Handbook of South American Archaeology. New York: Springer, 2008
- "The Relevance of Curt Nimuendajú's Archaeological Work", in Per Stenbrog; Stig Rydén. (Eds.) In Pursuit of a Past Amazon. Götebrog, Sweden: Museum of World Culture, 2004, v. 45, pp. 2–8.
- "O Velho e o Novo na Arqueologia Amazônica". Revista USP, Brasil, v. 44, pp. 87–113, 1999.
- "Twenty Years of Amazonian Archaeology in Brazil" in Antiquity , Vol. 72, pp. 625–632, 1998.
- "Village Fissioning in Amazonia: A Critique of Monocausal Determinism", Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, São Paulo, 1995, n. 5.
References edit
- ^ Eduardo Góes Neves. Research Supported by FAPESP. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- ^ Black Gold of the Amazon. Michael Tennesen, Discover, 30 April 2007. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- ^ Eduardo Goes Neves. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Retrieved 16 September 2018.
- ^ "Editorial Advisory Board". Antiquity. Retrieved 2023-08-14.
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