Unknown artist, Urn. Marajó Island, Brazil, 400–1500 CE. Ceramic with colored slip. 36 x 30 in. Gift of the collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer, 2006.14.

Marajo and the Ancient Amazonian World

2011 Mayer Center for Ancient and Latin American Art Symposium

Unknown artist, Urn. Marajó Island, Brazil, 400–1500 CE. Ceramic with colored slip. 36 x 30 in. Gift of the collection of Frederick and Jan Mayer, 2006.14.

Speakers

  • Michael Heckenberger (University of Florida): Garden Cities of the Southern Amazon
  • Peter Roe (University of Delaware): Enlightened Pottery: Shipibo Ceramics and the Polychrome Horizon
  • Anna Roosevelt (University of Illinois, Chicago): The Origin of Marajoara Society and its Influence in Amazonia from Prehistory to Today
  • Stéphen Rostain (Institut Francais d’Etudes Andines, Paris): Archaeology of the Guianas
  • Denise Schaan (Federal University of Pará, Brazil): Land of the Ancestors: Archaeology at the Amazon River mouth
  • Nigel Smith (University of Florida): Livelihoods on Marajó Island and their Links to the Past
  • John Walker (University of Central Florida): Landscape, Art and Design in the Llanos de Mojos, Bolivia