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Sambaquis (shell mounds) of the Brazilian coast
Quaternary International, 2011Abstract The Brazilian shell mounds called sambaquis have been well known since the 16th century when clergy, travelers, and members of the colonial administration wrote the first narratives of Portuguese America. However, it was only during the second quarter of the 19th century that, under the orders of the Imperial Government, the first scientific
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VESTÍGIOS: imersões do corpo nos sambaquis
Cadernos do GIPE-CIT, 2022Este artigo é uma atualização em texto das etapas de pesquisa, processo de criação artística e montagem de Vestígios, bem como de suas sucessivas apresentações públicas. Trata-se de uma obra criada na interseção entre as linguagens da dança, da videoinstalação, da performance e da land art, em diálogo com o artista Robert Smithson.
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Considerations of the sambaquis of the Brazilian coast
Antiquity, 1998Sambaqui is the name given to a certain type of archaeological evidence left by fisher/hunter/gatherer groups who inhabited large expanses of the Brazilian coast. The word is of Tupi etymology, tamba meaning shellfish and ki a piling-up (Prous 1991: 204).
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Stratigraphic Excavations in the Sambaqui of Araujo II, Paraná, Brazil
American Antiquity, 1956Large accumulations of shells can be found in flat coastal regions and along the lower course of big rivers all over the world. Many of these shellmounds have been investigated by archaeologists and have been found to contain, besides shells, considerable quantities of ash, numerous artifacts of stone and bone, occasionally potsherds, and often a ...
Adam Orssich, Elfriede Stadler Orssich
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Sambaqui (Shell Mound) Societies of Coastal Brazil
2008Sambaquis (the Brazilian term for shell mounds, derived from the Tupi language) are widely distributed along the shoreline of Brazil and were noted in European accounts as early as the sixteenth century. They typically occur in highly productive bay and lagoon ecotones where the mingling of salt and fresh waters supports mangrove vegetation and ...
Maria Dulce Gaspar +3 more
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OSL and EPR dating of shells and sediments from Congonhas II sambaqui, Santa Catarina, Brazil
Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 2020Nilo F Cano +2 more
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