Charlotte Robinson

PhD
Anthropology

Charlotte is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology studying landscape archaeology through the faunal remains of fish and remote sensing techniques like LiDAR. She is interested in how past Indigenous populations in the Amazon used their intricate ecological knowledge to domesticate their landscapes and increase long-term environmental productivity of floodplains. At the moment, Charlotte is working in the Llanos de Mojos of Bolivia, a large floodplain in the upper Amazon Basin but seek to expand my research into Brazil.  

“My research is centered on the domestication of aquatic landscapes by past Indigenous inhabitants in the Amazon basin. I am currently working in Bolivia but hope to learn Portuguese so I can expand my area of expertise and collaborate with Brazilian scholars.”