Mr. E.n. Herrera Malatesta

Biography

Eduardo obtain his bachelor degree in Anthropology in 2004 at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. In 2009 he got an MSc. in Anthropology at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas and in 2011an MSc. in GIS and Spatial Analysis in Archaeology at the University College London. He has done research in archaeology and anthropology in western, central and eastern Venezuela, mainly in coastal and island environments. He has taught at the Universidad Central de Venezuela in 2012 and 2013 courses related to GIS, cartography and archaeology. Currently he is a PhD student in the ERC Synergy-NEXUS 1492 Project at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Research Interest

The main objective of the research is to understand the effects that the encounter with the Europeans had on the Amerindian social and economic landscape in northern Dominican Republic. The base hypothesis is that the interactions with the Europeans, the introduction of new goods in the Amerindian exchange network and in some cases the tense relationships, produce social and cultural responses from the Amerindian population that could had a change in settlement patterns, exchange networks and probably perceptions of the environment. The research intend to answer three main questions: 1.How the arrival of Europeans affect Amerindian social and economic interactions in northern Dominican Republic? 2.Does the initial encounter had an effect on settlement patterns? 3.To what extent this context change perceptions of landscape/environment?