An Overview of Orinoco Valley Prehistory and Paleoecology

Dr. Anna C. Roosevelt is a four-field anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor, Professor of Anthropology, and Faculty Fellow of the Honors College at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her past jobs have been Curator of Archaeology at the Field Museum of Natural History, Guest Curator of the South American Hall at the American Museum of Natural History and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at NYU, and Curator for South and Middle America at the Museum of the American Indian. Among her many awards and honors, Dr. Roosevelt was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship for her groundbreaking work in Amazonian prehistory and ethnography. She has authored or co-authored 12 books and around 100 articles on topics ranging from the earliest human occupations in the Americas, the origins of agriculture, the origins of pottery, to the evolution of complex society and chiefdoms. In recent years, Dr. Roosevelt has been investigating the environment of human evolution in Africa and European colonial and neocolonial exploitation of African communities in the Congo.

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