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Giuseppe Orefici

On June 27, Giuseppe Orefici, an Italian archaeologist and one of the protagonists of the study of American indigenous societies, passed away.

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DRC 25 – the expedition gets going

After spending the first few days in the deafening chaos of Kinshasa, unimaginable for those who have never come across its boulevards perpetually congested by a disproportionate number of people, vehicles and merchandise of all kinds, we finally reached the province of Central Congo.

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GeoRes4Dev project – Democratic Republic of Congo expedition 2025

The gigantic estuary of the Congo River, one of the largest in the world, with its powerful jet of debris, earth and trees, transforms the ocean into a murky soup for hundreds of kilometers and marks the border between the cities of Brazzaville and Kinshasa, respectively the capitals of the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Chiribiquete, a multidisciplinary expedition to the cosmic Maloka of the Jaguar Man

In the first half of last December, an international expedition of anthropologists, archaeologists, geologists and speleologists visited the Serranía del Chiribiquete National Natural Park in Colombia with the aim of exploring and studying a new area of rock cliffs and caves characterised by the presence of extraordinary pictorial murals.

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Democratic Republic of Congo - GeoRes4Dev Project 2024

The Belgian writer David Van Reybrouck, when he first saw the gigantic estuary of the Congo River, starting point of colonizers and missionaries, whose powerful jet of debris, earth and trees transforms the ocean into a murky soup for hundreds of kilometers, immediately associated this image with a person who had cut his wrists and held them under water, but forever.

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