Awards, Medals, and Honors
- Plenary Lecture, "The Peopling of the Americas", AAAS Annual Meeting, 2003
- Achievement Award, Wings Trust, New York, 2003, $11,000
- A Principal Speaker, "The Future of the Rainforest: Does the Past Show the Way to the Future?", Grinnell College, Environmental Studies Program, Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations, and Human Rights, 2003, $1000
- Centennial Celebration Lecture, U. Colorado Museum of Natural History, 2002, $1,500
- Endowed Lecture, U. West Georgia, 2000, $1,000
- Gold Medal, Society of Women Geographers, 1999
- Gavan Memorial Endowed Lecture, U. of Missouri, Columbia, 1998
- Officer of the Order of Rio Branco, Brazil, 1997
- Explorers Medal, 1997
- Bettendorf Medal, Santarem, Brazil, 1996
- Endowed Lecture in Human Ecology, Ohio U., Athens, 1994, $6,000
- Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, 1993-94, $15,000
- Honorary Doctorate of Sciences, Northeastern U., Boston, 1992
- Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters, Mount Holyoke College, 1991
- Distinguished Lecturer, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, 1991
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