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Tetrapod biodiversity in sambaquis from southern Brazil [PDF]
Anais da Academia Brasileira de CiênciasFishermen-hunter-gatherers of sambaquis (Brazilian shell mounds) had an intimate affinity with marine-coastal environments, where they exploited a great variety of fish and mollusks that comprise the best documented fauna from sambaquis.
AUGUSTO B. MENDES, TAISSA RODRIGUES
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Cultural-ecosystem resilience is vital yet under-considered in coastal restoration
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 As large areas of the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) of the USA disappear into the sea, present-day communities and cultural resources are lost.
Jayur Madhusudan Mehta +1 more
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Bonding together the pasts: the mining of lime in Brazilian shell mounds [PDF]
Plural: History, Culture, Society, 2017 This article seeks to understand the links between mining and archaeology in shell mounds of coastal Brazil, vastly used as lime sources since the early colonization.
Calazans, Marília Oliveira
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Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2000 Pollen and diatoms analyses in a peat bog from the Baixo Ribeira do Iguape region (São Paulo State, Brazil) showed expressive changes in the environmental conditions.
Walter Mareschi Bissa +3 more
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Hjarnø Sund – all year, all inclusive
Danish Journal of Archaeology, 2018 Between 2009 and 2016, a series of investigations were undertaken at a submerged settlement of the island of Hjarnø in Horsens Fjord, Denmark.
Claus Skriver +2 more
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Neotropical IchthyologyArtifacts made from rays (rostral teeth and spine) are very common in shell mounds on the coast of São Paulo, Brazil. The presence of the genus Pristis among the studied species of elasmobranch fishes in this shell mounds reinforces the hypothesis these ...
Manoel M. B. Gonzalez
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How Jeffries Wyman put Florida and Shell Mounds on the Map (1860–1875)
Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 2015 The state of Florida is an intermittent flashpoint of shell mound research. This process was initiated in the 19 century by Jeffries Wyman, whose 1875 publication Fresh-Water Shell Mounds of the St.
Asa R. Randall
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Brésil(s)This article presents the evolution of scientific research on the shell mounds of the Brazilian south-southeast coast, focusing on the development of ideas that led to the construction of the current model of funerary sambaquis. We also seek to highlight
Veronica Wesolowski, Renata Estevam
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Listening to Shells and Discovering a Lost World; Epiphanic Experiences at the Museum
Proceedings from the Document Academy, 2014 This paper aims to entertain the possibilities for analysis, interpretation, and learning offered by evocative autoethnographic texts for LAM and LIS user studies. The focus in this paper is on storytelling as autoethnographic writing.
Catherine Closet-Crane
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Injuries in deep time: interpreting competitive behaviours in extinct reptiles via palaeopathology
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT For over a century, palaeopathology has been used as a tool for understanding evolution, disease in past communities and populations, and to interpret behaviour of extinct taxa. Physical traumas in particular have frequently been the justification for interpretations about aggressive and even competitive behaviours in extinct taxa.
Maximilian Scott +3 more
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