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O Sambaqui do Recreio: geoarqueologia, ictioarqueologia e etnoarqueologia [PDF]
Boletimdo Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi:Ciencias Humanas, 2020 Resumo O presente artigo apresenta o processo de ocupação sambaquieiro na barreira da Itapeva, contextualizando os sítios e os seus construtores na cronologia, bem como as escolhas para inserção em uma paisagem marcada pela dinâmica das transformações paleoambientais.
Lucas Antonio da Silva +2 more
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Oral Health of Sambaqui Groups in Saquarema, Brazil
Latin American Antiquity, 2023This article presents differences and similarities in dietary practices of fisher-gatherer groups excavated from two sambaquis (shell-mound archaeological sites) in Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. We analyzed the buccal apparatus of 35 individuals excavated from Sambaqui da Beirada, dated from 5437 to 3440 years cal BP, and Sambaqui do Moa ...
Victor Guida +2 more
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Electron Spin Resonance and Thermoluminescence dating of shells and sediments from Sambaqui (shell mound) Santa Marta II, Brazil [PDF]
Annals of Marine Science, 2020 In Tupi, the word Sambaqui means “mound of shells”. These archaeological sites are cultural vestiges left by the prehistoric occupation of the Brazilian coast from five to six thousand years ago.
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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
Gustavo Wagner +4 more
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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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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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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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