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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 20th - 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:
contact: fsantos@icb.ufmg.br
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