INTERDISCIPLINARY  SYMPOSIUM SERIES ON SOUTH AMERICAN (PRE)HISTORY

           POPULATING THE DIVERSE LANDSCAPES OF SOUTH AMERICA




Program


18 to 21 of October, 2017

Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

Pre-registration: US$250 or R$800

Registration on site

Students  R$100

Professionals R$300

Limited seats: apply to lbem.ufmg@gmail.com


Local organization at UFMG

  Fabricio R. Santos - Professor
  Dominique Ohasi - student
  Thomaz Pinotti - student
  Fernanda Trancoso - student


Steering committee

  Fabrício R. Santos - UFMG
  Paul Heggarty - MPI/Germany
  Maria C. Bortolini - UFRGS
  Tábita Hunemeier - USP
  Ana Suell Cabral - UNB

Invitees

  André Prous - UFMG
  André Strauss - USP
  Adrian Pearce - UCL/UK
  Bastien Llamas - UA/Australia
  Chiara Barbieri- MPI/Germany
  Cosimo Posth - MPI/Germany
  Eduardo G. Neves - USP
  Fabio O. Freitas - EMBRAPA
  José R. Sandoval - USMP/Peru
  Joshua Birchall - MPEG
  Kevin Lane - UBA/Argentina
  Lars Fehren-Schmitz - UC/USA
  Luciana Sianto - Fiocruz-RJ
  Luiz Souza - UFMG
  Lyle Campbel - UH/USA
  Mark Hubbe - OSU/USA
  Mario A. Cozzuol - UFMG
  Nelson J.R. Fagundes - UFRGS
  Patience Epps - UT/USA
  Rolando G-José - CENPAT/Arg.
  Ricardo Fujita - USMP/Peru
  Rui S. Murrieta - USP
  Sanderson S. Oliveira - UEA
  Thiago Chacon - UnB
 




























































New:  Photos

October 18th FACE (Economy School) Auditorium - in front of the Rectory
DAY 1: OPENING CEREMONY - General audience


19:00 20:30 Inaugural Public Lecture - UFMG 90 years celebration

Indigenous Languages in South America:
A Historical Perspective on Linguistic Diversification and Recent Decline

Professor Lyle Campbell, University of Hawaii, USA

October 19th - UFMG Rectory Sessions Room - 4th floor
DAY 2: FIRST PEOPLING OF THE AMERICAS — AND OF SOUTH AMERICA

8:00 08:30 Registration
8:30 09:00
Welcome

A
▪ First Settlement — From Multiple Perspectives
9:00 10:00
A1 ▪ General Perspectives
Migration routes to the Americas.
Population movements out of Asia.
Dynamics immediately following initial colonization.
Forms of evidence on first migrants and the formation of pre-Columbian societies.

10:00 10:30 COFFEE

10:30 11:00 A2 ▪ Demography: numbers of first settlers and population expansion thereafter.
11:00 12:15  A3 ▪ Towards a consensus on modelling the first settlement of the Americas.

12:15 14:00 - LUNCH

14:00 16:00   A4, A5, A6 and A7
▪ First human occupation of different biomes and landscapes across South America.
▪ Settlement of the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, and of the Andes.
▪ Settlement of the interior: Amazonia and the Central Brazilian Plateau.
▪ Settlement of the Southern Cone: the Chaco, Pampas and Patagonia

16:00 16:30 COFFEE

16:30 18:00 A8 ▪ The impacts of agriculture on the population structure of indigenous societies in South America.

October 20
th
- UFMG Rectory Sessions Room - 4th floor
DAY 3: PRE-COLUMBIAN SOCIETIES OF SOUTH AMERICA


B
▪ The Formation of (Complex) Societies: in the Andes
08:30 10:00
▪ Connections to the Andes from the Pacific Coast and Amazonia.
The chronological framework of demographic developments in the Andes, by altitude and ecological levels.
Evidence from ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, cultural anthropology and genetics.

10:00 10:30 COFFEE

C
▪ The Formation of (Complex) Societies in Amazonia and on the Central Brazilian Plateau
10:30 12:15
C1 ▪ Who and where were the first urban settlements in the interior of South America?
Ethnogenesis of Amazonian societies.
The people of Lagoa Santa, Serra da Capivara and Sambaquis.
C2 ▪ Agriculture impacts: terra preta and other cultural adaptations.

12:15 14:00 LUNCH

D
Cultural History of Pre-Columbian South America
14:00 14:30 D1 ▪ Rock art traditions and chronology.
14:30 15:30 D2 ▪ Language family distribution patterns and dispersal processes.

15:30 16:00 COFFEE

16:00 18:00 D3 ▪ The cultural and biological history of South America: — an open debate to promote some consensual views.


October 21st
- UFMG Rectory Sessions Room - 4th floor
DAY 4: THE POST-COLUMBIAN IMPACT

08:30 10:00 E European Colonization: Demographic and Cultural Decline
▪ The European conquest of South American territories.
▪ The impact of European colonisation and the western input to indigenous South America.

10:00 10:30 COFFEE

10:30 11:20 F Indigenous Peoples and Cultures in the 21st Century
▪ Indigenous groups today in South America: uncontacted, or in varying levels of contact with urban/western societies.
▪ The social, cultural and genealogical "identity" of South American indigenous groups.

11:20 12:00 G Round-Up: General Discussion and Publication Planning

14:00 19:00  Visit to Sumidouro Archaeological Park at Lagoa Santa

Official hotel: Quality Pampulha - Av. Presidente Antonio Carlos 7456

Walking map from hotel to University Rectory at UFMG Campus

Main organization and funding:

    UFMG      MPI     CAPES  

contact:  fsantos@icb.ufmg.br

Additional support:

                 pg             ufrgs      ufmg