Archaeological and paleontological research in Lagoa Santa : the quest for the first Americans / Pedro Da-Gloria, Walter A. Neves, Mark Hubbe, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Da-Gloria, Pedro, editor.

Neves, Walter A., editor.

Hubbe, Mark, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lund, Peter Wilhelm, 1801-1880.

Lund, Peter Wilhelm.

Paleo-Indians--Brazil--Lagoa Santa.

Paleo-Indians.

Indians of South America--Brazil--Lagoa Santa--Antiquities.

Indians of South America.

Human remains (Archaeology)--Brazil--Lagoa Santa.

Human remains (Archaeology).

Physical anthropology--Brazil--Lagoa Santa.

Physical anthropology.

Prehistoric peoples--Brazil--Lagoa Santa.

Prehistoric peoples.

Archaeology--Brazil--Lagoa Santa--History.

Archaeology.

Paleontology--Brazil--Lagoa Santa--History.

Paleontology.

History.

Antiquities.

Lagoa Santa (Brazil)--Antiquities.

Lagoa Santa (Brazil).

Brazil--Lagoa Santa.

Physical Description:

xvi, 401 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]

Contents:

1. Introduction / Pedro Da-Gloria, Walter A. Neves, and Mark Hubbe

Part I. History of research in Lagoa Santa. 2. Peter Wilhelm Lund : life and work / Birgitte Holten and Michael Sterll ; 3. Peter Wilhelm Lund's scientific contributions / Augusto S. Auler and Luís Beethoven Piló ; 4. The anthropological studies of Lagoa Santa in the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro : insertion, debates, and scientific controversies at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century / Adriana T.A. Martins Keuller ; 5. The physical anthropology archives of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro : Lagoa Santa in the first half of the twentieth century / Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto and Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho ; 6. The Minas Gerais Academy of Sciences : Lund's inheritors / Fernando Walter da Silva Costa ; 7. Archaeological missions to the Lagoa Santa region in the second half of the twentieth century / André Prous ; 8. The National Museum's contributions to Lagoa Santa research in the second half of the twentieth century / Sheila Mendonça de Souza and Andersen Liryo ; 9. The Origins Project and the First Americans' controversy / Danilo Vicensotto Bernardo, Walter A. Neves, and Renato Kipnis

Part II. Research topics. 10. The repercussions of the human skeletons from Lagoa Santa in the international scenario / Mark Hubbe and Walter A. Neves ; 11. The Lagoa Santa skeletons and the cranial morphology of the First Americans / Danilo Vicensotto Bernardo and Walter A. Neves ; 12. History of the research into health and lifestyle in Lagoa Santa / Pedro Da-Gloria and Rodrigo Elias Oliveira ; 13. Burial practices in the Lagoa Santa region / André Strauss ; 14. Constructing the past. A look at Lagoa Santa paleontology / Cástor Cartelle ; 15. The history of the studies of prehistoric rock paintings in the Lagoa Santa karst / Alenice Baeta and André Prous ; 16. Lithic technology in Lagoa Santa in the early Holocene / Lucas de Melo Reis Bueno and Andrei Isnardis ; 17. Towards the development of a tropical geoarchaeology : Lagoa Santa as an emblematic case study / Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo and Luís Beethoven Piló.

Notes:

"This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319574653

3319574655

OCLC:

981117782