American Confederates and the Origins of Archaeology in the Amazon Basin
Southerners who settled along the Amazon River after the Civil War stumbled upon rich soils for their plantations—but they also discovered an even richer past.
Nicholas C. Kawa
Nicholas C. Kawa is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at Ohio State University. His research centers on questions of human-environment interactions, with a specific focus on human relationships to plants and soils. He is the author of Amazonia in the Anthropocene. Follow him on Twitter @nick_kawa.