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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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Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 1991 The "Regional Prehistory" exhibition was planned and put together in 1991, at the Museu Arqueológico do Sambaqui de Joinville (Santa Catarina Stale, Brazil). This exhibition presents the culture of the Joinville shell-mounds past inhabitants, the spatial
Maria Cristina Oliveira Bruno +3 more
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Pitfalls in DNA extraction from ancient bones found in Brazilian shell-mounds
Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 2007 Os autores descrevem suas dificuldades na extração de ácido desoxiribonuclêico (DNA) de ossos encontrados em sambaquis nas praias da ilha de Sta. Carina, SC, Brasil.
Daniela Gaeta Arruda +2 more
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Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 1993 The sambaquis (or shell-mounds) are a very common type of prehistoric archaeological site along the brazilian southeast coast. Built between 7.000 and 1.000 years BP, they point to an efficient human adaptation to that area.
Levy Figuti
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Preliminary analysis of the faunal remains from the shell-mound Espinheiros II (Joinville, SC).
Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e EtnologiaThis study treats about the faunal composition of the sambaqui’s sediments and shows some aspects about its formation. The analysis exposed by the searchers try to show two different moments in the construction of this site, moments with different kinds ...
Levy Figuti, Daniela Magalhães Klökler
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Natural History Sciences, 2017 In the past, several Asian subspecies and local forms of Zootecus have been described and some of them can be linked back to Zootecus insularis. Their collecting sites, shell shapes, dimensions and number of whorls have been listed in the past. In recent
Alberto Girod, Antonio Balzarini
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Cribra orbitalia and Porotic hyperostosis on bone remains of the Bronze Age population from the Lower Volga region (search for the proliferation causes) [PDF]
Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографииThis study is devoted to defining the occurrence frequency of Cribra orbitalia and Porotic hyperostosis signs based on the data obtained and establishing the reasons for the spread of these pathological conditions in the study groups.
Pererva E.V.
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