Dr Manuel Arroyo-Kalin (UCL Archaeology) with PARIN colleagues at the exhibition launch in February 2023. Credit: Moises Baniwa.All images courtesy of Dr Manuel Arroyo-Kalin except where stated.
Dr Manuel Arroyo-Kalin (UCL Archaeology) with PARIN colleagues at the exhibition launch in February 2023. Credit: Moises Baniwa.All images courtesy of Dr Manuel Arroyo-Kalin except where stated. UCL archaeologist Dr Manuel Arroyo-Kalin has been working with Brazilian researchers and indigenous peoples to help better understand and share their cultural heritage. Along the banks of the Rio Negro in northwest Brazil, there lies the largest untouched rainforest tract in the whole of the Amazon basin, demarcated as an indigenous territory. Archaeologists, anthropologists, and other scholars, as well as indigenous peoples themselves, know that the region was inhabited in pre-colonial times. Yet archaeological knowledge about the details remains scarce. Since 2019, thanks to a British Academy/Global Challenges Research Fund grant in Sustainable Development, UCL archaeologist Dr Manuel Arroyo-Kalin has led an exciting interdisciplinary project there.
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