CEstA researchers are linked to the following CNPQ research groups:
- Algorithms, Complexity, and Combinatorial Optimization
- Guarani Archaeology: territoriality and material culture - UFRGS
- Public Archaeology
- Center for Mesoamerican and Andean Studies - CEMA/USP
- Study of Black Archaeological Land (Anthropogenic) in Amazonia
- Visual Anthropology Group - USP (LISA)
- Images, Narratives and Cultural Practices - INARRA/UERJ
- Intelligence and Knowledge: Memory, Technology and Information Organization
- Symmetric Anthropology Laboratory - UERJ
- Nucleus of Urban Anthropology - NAU/USP
- Nucleus of Studies and Research of Narrative-Nucen - UNEAL
- Nucleus of Indigenous History and Indigenism - NHII/USP
- Landscape and palaeo-nobotany in prehistory of Brazil
- Nuclear Analytical Techniques Applied to Environmental and Archaeological Studies