Archaeological and Paleontological Research in Lagoa Santa: The Quest for the First Americans

Foreword

Ricardo Ventura Santos

1. Introduction

Pedro Da-Gloria, Walter Alves Neves and Mark Hubbe

PART I - History of research in Lagoa Santa

2. Peter Wilhelm Lund - life and work

Birgitte Holten and Michael Sterll

3. Peter Wilhelm Lund´s scientific contributions

Augusto S. Auler and 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 19th to 20th 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 20th century

Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto and Claudia Rodrigues-Carvalho

6. The Minas Gerais Academy of Sciences - Lund's inheritors

Fernando Walter da Silva Costa

7. Archaeological missions to the Lagoa Santa region in the second half of the 20th century

André Prous

8. The National Museum's contributions to the Lagoa Santa research in the second half of the 20th century

Sheila Mendonça de Souza and Andersen Liryo

9. The Origins project and the first Americans controversy

Danilo Vicensotto Bernardo, Walter Alves Neves and Renato Kipnis

PART II - Research topics

10. The repercussions of the human skeletons from Lagoa Santa in the international scenario