Forthcoming lectures





Tuesday, 08 June – Luiz Oosterbeek – Evidence of Complexities of Prehistoric Farming Societies in Brazil

(PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A CHANGE TO THE SECOND TUESDAY AS 1ST JUNE IS A PUBLIC HOLIDAY IN SÂO BRÁS!!

European approaches to Southern American archaeology have been largely focused in the major Meso-American and Andean civilisations. As a consequence, the popular perception of the early contacts between Europeans (Portuguese) and indigenous populations in Southern America is marked by a consideration of a very low level of social complexity of the latter. Yet, Brazil and Southern America in the dawn of the XVI century were the stage for numerous and different human groups. The talk will put forward evidence of the complexities of these groups.

Luiz Oosterbeek is a graduate in History (Lisbon, 1982), PhD in Archaeology (London 1994, Porto 1995), Professor at the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT), guest lecturer in several universities in Europe and Brazil, Director of IPT’s International Relations Bureau, Secretary General of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (CIPSH/UNESCO), Vice-President of HERITY International, member of the Science and Society Committee of CYTED, Co-ordinator of research, teaching and Heritage management projects in Portugal, Brazil, Colombia, Senegal and Angola. He is currently Director. Co-ordinator of Master and PhD programmes and of several EU projects in the fields of prehistory, archaeology, landscape and heritage management. Responsible of the “Quaternary and Prehistory group of the Geosciences Centre” (R&D unit 73 of the Portuguese National Scientific System). Author of circa 20 books and 200 papers.

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