by Susan Lee | May 13, 2024 | Latest News
In April 2024, I presented a talk at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology titled, “The Missing Mammals of Cerro Azul.” In it, I suggested that the low frequency of medium and large-bodied mammals among the faunal remains which LASTJOURNEY has...
by Susan Lee | May 7, 2024 | Latest News
The Archaeobotanist J. Julian Garay-Vazquez is currently working on identifying charred plant remains from Limoncillos at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, cede Bogota. Recently, the presence of maize within the assemblage was identified, adding a new record for...
by Susan Lee | Mar 25, 2024 | Latest News
The European Research Council has featured the Last Journey project on their website in an article titled In search of Amazon’s ancient hunters – ‘South America holds a unique place in human history as the final continental frontier for early...
by Susan Lee | Mar 18, 2024 | Latest News
The main objective of my work as a rock art specialist within the LastJourney project is to map the different rock art typologies present at Cerro Azul including depictions of animals and humans as well as handprints and geometric patterns. Presently, my focus lies on...
by Susan Lee | Feb 13, 2024 | Latest News
Some of the earliest people to migrate to South America during the late Pleistocene era turned shallow caves in the Amazon into homes and safe havens from which they foraged for food, and galleries on which they painted vibrant artworks. Analysis of rock shelters in...
by Susan Lee | Feb 6, 2024 | Latest News
Professor José Iriarte has been awarded the 2023 Field Discovery Award by the prestigious Shanghai Archaeology Forum (SAF) from the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, for his work on ‘The Colombian Amazon Rock Art’. This was an exceptionally...
