Posted on 08/14/2005 7:33:31 PM PDT by Pharmboy
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - An American anthropology professor on a research trip to Brazil was killed Saturday while he was being robbed in a small rain forest town near the Amazon River, an U.S. Embassy spokesman said Sunday. James Petersen, 51, a professor at the University of Vermont, was robbed at a restaurant in the town of Iranduba, said the spokesman, John Wilcock. Iranduba is about 1,650 miles northwest of Sao Paulo.
Three suspects were taken into custody, according to CBN radio. Wilcock said he could not confirm that information, and federal police in the area were not immediately available for comment.
John Bramley, provost of the university, said Petersen was with colleagues at the time of the robbery and was shot to death.
Petersen, of Salisbury, Vt., chaired the university's anthropology department, according to the university Web site.
And predictable.
Here's some of his latest research:
Recent Research on St. Lawrence Iroquoians in Vermont: An Archaeological Perspective
by James B. Petersen, Anthropology, UVM
Research-in-Progress Seminar #164 / September 18, 2002 (Presented in conjunction with Vermont Archaeology Month 2002)
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One of the most remarkable developments in northeastern North America during the long span of Native American occupation was the appearance of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians. The St. Lawrence Iroquoians became recognizable archaeologically some time after ca. A.D. 1200-1300, primarily along the St. Lawrence River in Ontario, Quebec, and New York. Likewise, the demise of all the St. Lawrence Iroquoians in the earliest historic Contact period is enigmatic and has been hotly contested among regional researchers because it occurred before any substantial historical documentation, that is, ca. A.D. 1550-1575. Although they were recorded by Jacques Cartier in the 1530s and 1540s on and near the St. Lawrence River, the St. Lawrence Iroquoians had completely disappeared by the time of permanent French colonization in Quebec during the early 1600s.
James Petersen, University of Vermont Anthropology Department, summarizes ongoing research concerning the St. Lawrence Iroquoians in northern New England. The evidence is plentiful enough to suggest that the St. Lawrence Iroquoians were locally represented in various areas over a substantial period, minimally ca. A.D. 1300-1575 or later, especially in western Vermont. He reviews the available evidence from Maine, New Hampshire, and especially Vermont, including pottery find spots and recently studied habitation sites. The significance of early discoveries, a subsequent hypothesis about a Champlain-Richelieu "cluster" for the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, and the recent discoveries are discussed, along with different mechanisms that help account for the cumulative evidence.
Paleoindians in Vermont, 9000-7000 B.C.: Recent Research Concerning the Original Vermonters
by James B. Petersen, Anthropology, UVM
Research-In-Progress Seminar #157 / September 18, 2001 (Presented in conjunction with Vermont Archaeology Week 2001)
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Native Americans have lived in Vermont for a very long time, minimally spanning 11,000 years. Although some Native Americans believe that they have "always" lived here, the scientific perspective of archaeology recognizes that they colonized North America from Eurasia before 12,000 years ago. Native Americans arrived in Vermont after that during the early portion of the so-called Paleoindian period, which is dated overall from 9000 B.C. to 7000 B.C. In geological terms, the Paleoindian period occurred in North America generally and Vermont specifically during the latest stages of the Pleistocene epoch, or the "Ice Age." The Pleistocene epoch witnessed locally colder climactic conditions than today and rather different plant and animal species lived in Vermont. For example, at the end of the Pleistocene, mammoths and mastodons were present locally on the deglaciated landscape and Paleoindians may have hunted them. Both the Pleistocene epoch and the Paleoindian period ended with warming of the climate and environmental transformations toward modern conditions.
James Petersen summarizes recent and ongoing archaeological research in Vermont and elsewhere in northern New England concerning the Paleoindian period. Paleoindian evidence has been long known from Vermont, but only recently several Paleoindian sites were systematically investigated in Williston and Ludlow, Vermont, and elsewhere. Conducted by the University of Vermont Consulting Archaeology Program, these archaeological studies contribute to an evolving (but still woefully incomplete) record of Paleoindian lifeways in Vermont and the broader region. A two-part chronology for the Paleoindian period is proposed and available information about these two subdivisions is summarized. Finally, the implications of these discoveries for understanding the earliest Native Americans in Vermont are explored in a preliminary fashion.
Vermont's First Cultivators: The Prehistoric Origins of Farming in New England
by James B. Petersen, Anthropology, UVM
Research-in-Progress Seminar #149 / September 20, 2000 (Presented in conjunction with Vermont Archaeology Week 2000)
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Native Americans here in Vermont were cultivating various indigenous crops when the first Europeans arrived in the early 1600s. In the broad region of eastern North America, indigenous farming had substantially transformed Native American societies long before European contact, as in the Midwest, Southeast, and Southwest. This transformation led to greater sedentism, population growth, and intergroup conflict once maize (corn), beans, and squash were domesticated. However, the degree of change among local Native Americans, the origins of their farming, and its dating have all remained elusive in Vermont and the broader New England region, in part due to a paucity of research and in part due to limitations imposed by archaeological preservation.
James Petersen summarizes recently obtained archaeological evidence that suggests crop cultivation in Vermont, including maize, beans, and squash, is minimally about 900-1,000 years old, dating to ca. A.D. 1100. Recent evidence also suggests that tobacco may have grown locally in Vermont much earlier, dating back to 2,300-2,400 years ago. Further evidence suggests that squash and/or gourds may have been locally cultivated in New England much earlier still, dating back as early as 5,500-6,000 years ago. This information from Vermont and the broader region suggests that by late prehistoric times farming had indeed led to changes in the size and permanency of Native American settlements all across the region, matching patterns found elsewhere. Finally, the implications of these discoveries for understanding precontact Native Americans' societies are considered.
The Winooski Falls Complex: A Mirror of Vermont's Industrial Past
by Joseph-André Senécal, Romance Languages, University of Vermont
Research-in-Progress Seminar #130 / September 21, 1998
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The Vermont countryside was until recently dotted with mine shafts, mills, and smokestacks. Most villages and towns in the state owe their rise and prosperity to a ready source of water power, with more than 2,000 water wheels or turbines at over 1,200 locations by 1900. As early as 1890, Vermont manufacturers, lumber mills, and quarry sheds generated more wealth than agriculture. By 1910 Vermont factories employed over 20,000 workers. Mills cropped up all over--in Bellows Falls, Springfield, and Bennington but also in Jamaica, Barton, and Cavendish, to name only a few. The largest installations were in the Winooski-Burlington area. At the last falls along the Winooski River, generations of entrepreneurs employed thousands in lumber processing; grain and oil milling; lime making; iron smelting and forging; wool, cotton, and paper manufacturing; and hydroelectric generation. These industrial ventures brought wealth to the area and gave rise to the Winooski Falls Mill Complex.
The Century of the Mills (1844-1945) brought waves of immigrants to Vermont. Newcomers from Canada, Ireland, Italy, Wales, Sweden, Russia, Scotland, and many other countries came to work in the mills and quarry sheds. Ethnic groups of Winooski and Burlington contributed to a rich, multicultural community life. By looking at the successive occupants of the grist mill area and the Chace Mill components, Joseph-André Senécal offers an illustrated overview of the entire site and discusses how it can be interpreted as a microcosm of Vermont's industrial past.
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There's a place called the rainforest that truly sucks @$$
Let's knock it all down and get rid of it fast
You say 'save the rainforest', but what do you know?
You've never been to the rainforest before!
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To tell you things you might not like to hear
You only fight these causes 'cos caring sells
All you activists can go f&*& yourselves.
Someday if we work hard boys and girls..
There'll be no more rainforests left in the entire world..
Getting Gay with Kids is here
To spread the word, and bring you cheer
Getting Gay with Kids is here
Lets knock down the rainforest, whaddaya say?
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Well, at least they hadn't have time to devour him.
Damn. :-(
Sao Paulo is a hellhole. I think it has the fifth largest fleet of helicopters in the world --- executives know it is the only safe way to get to work. It has the very rich and the very poor. On a major street I was on going through the town three years ago, I noticed that almost every square foot of available wall space was covered with grafitti. People live along the main roadway in little shelters made of cardboard boxes. Even though I was there with a group of journalists on a bus passing through the city, I didn't like being there at all.
I'm having a hard time imagining a small rain forest town 1650 miles northwest of Sao Paulo even having a restaurant.
Welcome to the world where contraception is a sin.
Got any insights into that neck of the woods?
Stuffed him did they?
I wonder if Professor ever read "Hearts of Darkness." Tragic tale nevertheless and indicative as to why my mom was always worried when I went touring through the bush in Mexico and Central America.
Thanks for the pictures.
Go back to DU, please.
I wonder if he yelled "Im endowed by the Ford foundation" and backed by public television"..still very sad is what I'm supposed to say....
To think, immigrants from Italy, Japan, and Lebanon once poured into Sao Paulo to get their piece of the (South) American dream.
btt
And you reply like a jerk. (Is there a site for that?)
And before you spout off bullcrap like "there are as many practicing protestants as their are Catholics", maybe you should check the facts first.
How about trying The CIA World Factbook?
According to the book, Brazil's people are: Roman Catholic (nominal) 73.6%, Protestant 15.4%, Spriritualist 1.3%, Bantu/voodoo 0.3%, other 1.8%, unspecified 0.2%, none 7.4% (2000 census)
The only way your statement could be at all considered accurate is if protestants were 5 times as likely to "practice" their religion as catholics whatever that means.
The fact remains, much of Brazil's poverty is a result of overpopulation. And that is a result of the belief that people ought to "go forth an multiply".
My pleasure.
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