South American Contributions to World Archaeology (eBook)

Editor Mariano Bonomo is currently a researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Investigations (CONICET), Deputy Chief of the Archaeology Division of La Plata Museum at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Museum of La Plata (FCNyM), and Professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina.  His major research interests are the past human occupations of aquatic environments in the Paraná River and the Pampean Atlantic coast and the spread of agriculture and Arawak and Tupi-Guarani peoples through Lowland South America. He received both his undergraduate degree (Anthropology) and his doctorate (Natural Sciences) at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina.  

Editor Sonia Archila is currently an Associate Professor and the Director of the Department of Anthropology, University of Los Andes, Colombia. She teaches courses in Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, and Archaeological Method and Theory. She is also the coordinator of the Archaeobotany Laboratory. Her major interests are the study of human-environmental interactions through time and social memory construction, particularly in relation to traditional knowledge of natural resource uses and archaeological heritage. She obtained a Master of Science in Environmental Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and her PhD in Archaeology at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London.