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Archaeology, Human Ecology, Human-Environment Interaction; South America, Africa.
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| Current Research - Selected Publications |
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Professor
Roosevelt specializes in two main geographic areas, the Middle Amazon and
the Congo Basin. In the Amazon, she works at multiple sites, including
those in Paraguay and Brazil. Dr. Roosevelt's Congo Basin research is in
Bayanga in the southwestern Central African Republic, and in the
western Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Dr. A. C. Roosevelt is an anthropologist interested in human ecology
and evolution. For 25 years, she has studied long-term
human-environmental interaction in the tropics with funding from
National Science Foundation, National Endowment for Humanities,
Fulbright Commission, and Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the University of
Illinois. Fellow of American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Royal
Geographical Society, she was awarded a 5-year MacArthur Fellowship for
her interdisciplinary research. She holds the Explorers Medal, Society
of Women Geographers' Gold Medal, Order of Rio Branco and Bettendorf
medals (Brazil), and honorary doctorates from Mt. Holyoke and
Northeastern University, Boston.
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| Dr. Roosevelt currently directs the Lower Amazon Project in Brazil and the Congo Basin Project in Africa.
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2005
Environment in Human Evolution. In
Anthropological Archaeology from the School of American Research
– Theoretical and Conceptual Integration: Papers in Honor of
Doug
Schwartz, V. Scarborough, ed. Santa Fe: SAR Press. In press
2003 (With B.W. Bevan) Geoarchaeological Exploration of
Guajara,
A Prehistoric Earth Mound in Brazil. Geoarchaeology 18(3): 287-331.
2002b (with John Douglas and Linda Brown) Migrations and
Adaptations of the First Americans: Clovis and Pre-Clovis Viewed from
South America. In
The First
Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World, N. Jablonski,
ed. Pp. 159-236. Berkeley: University of California Press.
2002a Gender in Human Nature: Sociobiology Revisited and
Revised. In
In Pursuit of Gender: Worldwide Archaeological Approaches, S.M. Nelson
and M. Rosen-Ayalon, eds. Pp. 355-376. Walnut
Creek, CA:
Altamira Press.
2000b Mound-building Societies of the Amazon and Orinoco. In Archaeologia de
las Tierras Bajas, A. Duran Coirolo, ed. Montevideo: Ministerio de
Educacion, Uruguay.
2000a The Lower Amazon: A Dynamic Human Habitat. In
Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations in the Precolumbian
Americas, D.L. Lentz, ed. Pp 455-491. New York: Columbia University
Press.
1999d The Development of Prehistoric Complex Societies :
Amazonia, a Tropical Forest. In
Complex Polities in the Ancient Tropical World, E.A. Bacus, L.J.
Lucero, and J. Allen, eds. Pp. 13-34. Arlington: American
Anthropological
Association.
1999c The Maritime, Highland, Forest Dynamic and the Origins
of Complex Culture. In
South America, Frank Salomon and Stuart Schwartz, eds. Pp. 264-369.
Cambride, New York: Cambridge University Press.
1999b O Povoamento das Americas: O Panorama Brasileiro. In Pre-historia
da Terra Brasilis. Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro. Pp. 35-50.
1999a Twelve Thousand Years of Human-Environment Interaction
in
the Amazon Floodplain. Advances in Economic Botany, Vol. 13. New York
Botanical Garden. Pp. 371-392.
1995 Early Pottery in the Amazon: Twenty Years of Scholarly
Obscurity. In
The Emergence of Pottery: Technology and Innovation in Ancient
Societies, W. Barnett and J. Hoopes, eds. Smithsonian Institution
Press. Pp. 115-131.
1993 The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Chiefdoms. L'Homme 33
(126-128): 255-284.
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