Archaeological and Paleontological Research in Lagoa Santa

1. Introduction
Pedro Da-Gloria, Walter A. Neves, Mark Hubbe

Part I. History of Research in Lagoa Santa

2. Peter Wilhelm Lund: Life and Work
Birgitte Holten, Michael Sterll

3. Peter Wilhelm Lund’s Scientific Contributions
Augusto S. Auler, Luís Beethoven Piló

4. The Anthropological Studies of Lagoa Santa in the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro: Insertion, Debates, and Scientific Controversies at the Turn of the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century
Adriana T. A. Martins Keuller

5. The Physical Anthropology Archives of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro: Lagoa Santa in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto, Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho

6. The Minas Gerais Academy of Sciences: Lund’s Inheritors
Fernando Walter Silva Costa

7. Archaeological Missions to the Lagoa Santa Region in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
André Prous

8. The National Museum’s Contributions to Lagoa Santa Research in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
Sheila Mendonça de Souza, Andersen Liryo

9. The Origins Project and the First Americans’ Controversy
Danilo Vicensotto Bernardo, Walter A. Neves, Renato Kipnis

Part II. Research Topics

10. The Repercussions of the Human Skeletons from Lagoa Santa in the International Scenario
Mark Hubbe, Walter A. Neves

11. The Lagoa Santa Skeletons and theCranial Morphology of theFirst Americans
Danilo Vicensotto Bernardo, Walter A. Neves

12. History of the Research into Health and Lifestyle in Lagoa Santa
Pedro Da-Gloria, Rodrigo Elias Oliveira

13. Burial Practices in the Lagoa Santa Region
André Strauss

14. Constructing the Past. A Look at Lagoa Santa Paleontology
Cástor Cartelle

15. The History of the Studies of Prehistoric Rock Paintings in the Lagoa Santa Karst
Alenice Baeta, André Prous

16. Lithic Technology in Lagoa Santa in the Early Holocene
Lucas de Melo Reis Bueno, Andrei Isnardis

17. Towards the Development of a Tropical Geoarchaeology: Lagoa Santa as an Emblematic Case Study
Astolfo Gomes de Mello Araujo, Luís Beethoven Piló

Nyckelord: Social Sciences, Archaeology, Biological Anthropology, Paleontology