Abstract
In the decades from the 1930s to the 1960s, the Minas Gerais Academy of Sciences was the protagonist of archaeological and paleontological studies in the state of Minas Gerais. The Academy was a private institution made up of amateurs; it never enjoyed any form of public support, and its central goal was to ensure the continuation of the studies started by Peter Lund in the Lagoa Santa region. Despite its notable contribution to Brazilian archaeology, the Academy’s research efforts were never taken seriously by the professional archaeologists who worked in Minas Gerais in the 1970s, and consequently it has never occupied a respected position in the national scientific memory.
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Normal School in Brazil was a place aimed to train new teachers.
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Almost 1 year after the actual founding, which took place on October 24, 1934.
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Rio de Janeiro, in those days.
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A curious fact is that the patron of chair number one, occupied by Mattos, was Baron Homem de Melo and not Lund as would have been expected. The latter was patron of chair number two.
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Milton Soares Campos was governor of Minas Gerais from March 1947 to January 1951.
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He died in the early 1970s and was buried at the Cemitério da Paz (cemetery), in Belo Horizonte.
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The work and the publications were interrupted by the World War II.
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Other countries settled the conflict between professional and amateurs in a more creative way by attracting the interest of the public at large, which then helped in the surveillance of archaeological sites, participating in research activities and financing studies (Gaspar 2000:19).
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A. Prous, personal communication in 1994.
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See also Revista do Instituto Historico e Geografico de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Vol. II, 1945, pp. 258–260, and Vol. IV 1957, pp. 291–293.
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da Silva Costa, F.W. (2017). The Minas Gerais Academy of Sciences: Lund’s Inheritors. In: Da-Gloria, P., Neves, W., Hubbe, M. (eds) Archaeological and Paleontological Research in Lagoa Santa. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57466-0_6
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