Gerson Levi-Lazzaris is a Brazil

Brazil

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ian archaeologist, descendent of Italo

Italy

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-Slovenian immigrants. Most of the Lazzaris are from Forno di Zoldo

Forno di Zoldo

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, Veneto

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, from where most of them emigrated during the end of the 19th century, and also after the Second World War to Argentina

Argentina

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, Australia

Australia

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, Brazil

Brazil

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 and United States

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Biography

Born as Gerson Levi da Silva-Mendes, he had his current surname recently recovered. In 1983, his family moved from Curitiba

Curitiba

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 to São Paulo

São Paulo

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. At the age of 15 he moved to Lisbon, Portugal, following a short-experience in Finland

Finland

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. Accepted in the University of São Paulo

University of São Paulo

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, Levi-Lazzaris started his studies in Archaeology and History, focusing Anti-semitism

Anti-Semitism

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 in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (2003), obtaining his BA. In 2007 he obtained a Master degree in Archaeology in the same University of São Paulo based on an extensive dissertation about Middle Holocene hunter-gatherer societies in Southeast Brazil

Southeast Region, Brazil

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. He was the first archaeologist to introduce ecosystem approach in Brazilian archaeology. On March 2007 he was accepted as graduate student at Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

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Levi-Lazzaris has published more than 50 articles between, ranging from political reviews in Trotskyite periodicals to scientific reviews and governamental reports. He has also translated a book and is the author of two others, both in preparation for publication. Levi-Lazzaris is currently an assistant researcher in the State Museum of Roraima, Brazil, working in Roraima among the Ninam Indians, a Yanomamo subgroup, developing ethnoarchaeological studies in the Uraricoera valley.