CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Biociências (IB) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
bachelor's at Ciências Biológicas from Instituto de Biociências da Universidade de São Paulo (1982), bachelor's at Biologia Humana from Universidade de Viena (1986), master's at Biologia Humana from Universidade de Viena (1989) and doctorate at Genetics from Universidade de São Paulo (1996). Has experience in General Biology, acting on the following subjects: sambaqui, paleopatologia, osteologia, pre-historia and dieta. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The archaic groups on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts initially subsisted on marine resources. At the Central Andres they showed monumentality, territoriality and sedentism, early adopting agriculture, a development that culminated in complex systems of socio-political organization, states and empires. In contrast, the most conspicuous monumentality at the Atlantic coast are the sambaquis…
This project integrates two investigation perspectives around a same theme. The archaeological sites known as fluvial sambaquis in the basin of the river Ribeira de Iguape, south of the State of São Paulo. On a side, the archaeological interest in the chronology and in the structural and cultural characteristics peculiar of these sites relatively rare and dispersed in the valley of the Ri…
The aim of this project is to confront and test hypotheses about the causes of higher caries frequencies found in women than men. Numerous bioarcheological works report on higher caries frequencies in women than men. However, there is a lack of systematic comparisons among peoples from different cultural backgrounds. In this project, therefore, 14 pre-historic populations of South America…
The processes of social complexity in South America occurred in a particular way because of the diversity of biomes, the available resources and the cultural variability. The groups of hunter-gatherers in the inland, coastal fishers and gatherers, and farming populations who inhabited these areas for millennia, have developed complex subsistence strategies in which health was affected in …
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