Eduardo Góes Neves is professor of archaeology at the

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, Brazil. He is known for his work directing the Central Amazon Project from 1995 to 2010.

Career

Neves received his PhD from

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. 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.Black Gold of the Amazon.
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at Harvard University. He was president of the Brazilian Archaeological Society.Eduardo Goes Neves.
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Selected publications

Books

* ''Arqueologia da Amazônia''. Rio de Janeiro: Jorge Zahar, 2006 * ''Unknown Amazon: Culture in Nature in Ancient Brazil''.

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, London, 2001. (Joint editor)

Articles and chapters

* "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:

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, 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:

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, 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

External links

*https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Eduardo_Neves3 Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Brazilian archaeologists University of São Paulo alumni Academic staff of the University of São Paulo Indiana University alumni {{Brazil-scientist-stub