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(Anthropologist, Archaeologist) Olga F. Linares was an academic anthropologist and archaeologist known for her research on the cultural ecology of Panama and the Casamance region of Southern Senegal. As a senior staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, she focused on the social organization of agrarian systems and the relationship between ecology, political economy, migration, and food production dynamics in rural tropical regions. Her work significantly contributed to understanding human-environment interactions in diverse cultural contexts.
