Eduardo Neves

Lecturer in Archaeology and director of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography at the University of São Paulo, Eduardo Neves has a PhD in History from Indiana University in the United States and has spent more than thirty years carrying out research in the Amazon. He has taught in universities in Argentina and Ecuador as well as being a guest researcher and teacher at Harvard University, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has authored more than 130 publications of books and articles in academic journals and, in 2019, he was awarded the Shanghai Archaeological Forum Prize for research. Moreover, he has led many projects linked to the Amazon and, with his research, has contributed to making known the true legacy of the Amazonian peoples. One of his main contributions has been that of refuting the myth of the Amazon as pristine territory when demonstrating that the rainforest is the result of thousands of years of relationship between the rainforest and the Indigenous peoples who have turned it into the centre of water production and biodiversity it is known for today.