De Medeiros, José Eduardo M.
Born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Dr José Eduardo M. de Medeiros studied Archaeological Sciences, Philosophy and Cultural as well as Physical Anthropology in Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany, Austin, Texas, USA and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His view of archaeology as a long term understanding of the cultural development of humankind guided his interest towards a historico-genetic understanding of the worlds of meaning in the past and present.