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In this history of Brazil before Brazil, before its colonisation, Brazilian archaeologist Eduardo Góes Neves deconstructs the common image of the Amazon, too often perceived as a virgin forest devoid of culture on the southern edge of South America.

To do so, he traces human occupation of the Amazon basin, whose history began more than 11,000 years ago, up to the first European conquests. Using a historical and cultural approach, Neves, with the considerable help of his many collaborators, presents us with an Amazon at the heart of the continent's development, a place where diverse populations gathered, lived and traded with distant peoples, some of whom came from the high plateaus of the Andes.

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Eduardo Góes Neves is a Brazilian archaeologist and one of the leading experts on the Amazon. He is a professor at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of São Paulo and coordinator of the Laboratory of Tropical Archaeology. He has been working in the field of archaeological research in the Amazon for over 30 years, has published more than 120 articles on the subject and has supervised over 60 projects.