UCL Institute of Archaeology

• Licentiate, MPhil, PhD
• British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
• Course Co-ordinator: ARCL2017 Geoarchaeology
• Course Co-ordinator (with José Oliver): ARCL3060 Ancient Societies of Amazonia

 Research Interests

• South American pre-Columbian history
• Historical Ecology and Landscape History
• Human Niche-Building, Plant Cultivation
• Anthropogenic soils

Current project

• British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2011-2014
  A Landscape Provocation: towards a Human History of pre-Columbian Amazonia
  'A Landscape Provocation' is a scholarly project that seeks to develop an account of the human history of the world’s largest rainforest - Amazonia - from the vantage point of historical ecology, bio-social complexity, and landscape evolution. 
• Lathrap Colloquium: details to be announced

Educational Background

• PhD Archaeology (University of Cambridge, 2008)
• MPhil Archaeological Science (University of Cambridge, 1999)
• Licentiate in Anthropology, specialising in Archaeology (Universidad de Chile, 1998)

Editorship

• Section Editor (Environmental Archaeology), Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (Springer).

Edited volumes

• "Special Issue: Long-term perspectives on human occupation of tropical rainforests" Edited by Huw Barton, Tim Denham, Katharina Neumann and Manuel Arroyo-Kalin. Quaternary International 249 [2012] [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/10406182/249]

Journal articles

• Arroyo-Kalin M (2012) Slash-burn-and-churn: Landscape History and Crop cultivation in pre-Columbian Amazonia. Quaternary International 249:4–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2011.08.004
• Arroyo-Kalin M (2010) The Amazonian Formative: crop domestication and anthropogenic soils. Diversity 2(4): 473-504. Special issue edited by William Balée Long-Term Anthropic Influences on the Diversity of Amazonian Landscapes and Biota.
• Feathers JK, R Kipnis, LB Piló, M Arroyo-Kalin, DK Coblentz (2010) How old is Luzia? Luminescence dating and stratigraphic integrity at Lapa Vermelha, Lagoa Santa, Brazil. Geoarchaeology 25(4):395-436.
• Araújo AGM, JK Feathers, M Arroyo-Kalin, MM Tizuka (2008) Lapa das Boleiras rockshelter: stratigraphy and formation processes at a Paleoamerican site in Central Brazil. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(12): 3186-3202.
• Morello F, M Arroyo-Kalin, Borrero LA, Torres J, Massone M, Cárdenas P, Bahamonde G (2009) Nuevas evidencias de cazadores recolectores terrestres del Holoceno Medio y Tardío en Tierra del Fuego: el sitio Cabo Monmouth 20. Magallania 37(2): 193-205.

Book chapters

• Arroyo-Kalin M (2010) A domesticação na paissagem: os solos antropogênicos e o Formativo na Amazônia. Pereira E and Guapindaia V (eds) Arqueologia Amazônica 2. Belém, Museu Goeldi.
• Arroyo-Kalin M, (2008) Steps towards an ecology of landscape: the pedo-stratigraphy of anthropogenic dark earths. In: Woods, WI, W Teixeira, J Lehmann, C Steiner, A WinklerPrins, L Rebellato (eds) Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision. Dordrecht, Kluwer, pp 33-83.
• Arroyo-Kalin M, EG Neves, WI Woods (2008) Anthropogenic dark earths of the Central Amazon region: remarks on their evolution and polygenetic composition. Woods, WI, W Teixeira, J Lehmann, C Steiner, A WinklerPrins, L Rebellato (eds) Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision. Dordrecht, Kluwer, pp 99-125.
• Arroyo-Kalin, M (2004) An outgoing outcome, a surrounding world: materiality, agency and history. In DeMarrais, E, C Gosden, C Renfrew, (eds) Rethinking Materiality: the Engagement of Mind with the Material World. Cambridge: McDonald Institute Monographs, pp 73-79.
• Ruivo MdLP, M Arroyo-Kalin, CER Schaefer, HT Costi, SHDS Arcanjo, HN Lima, MM Pulleman, D Creutzberg (2003) The use of micromorphology for the study of the formation and properties of Amazonian Dark Earths. In: Lehmann, J, D Kern, B Glaser, W Woods (eds) Amazonian Dark Earths. Origins, Properties and Management. Dordrecht, Kluwer Press, pp 243-254.