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Yams (Dioscorea spp.) in shellmounds and swiddens: ancient history in Babitonga Bay, Santa Catarina State, southern Brazil [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineBackground In Babitonga Bay, southern Brazil, records of yam consumption exist among shellmound builders from at least 4000 years ago. Shellmounds (sambaquis) are anthropogenic structures in the form of mounds with layers of shells associated with other ...
Nivaldo Peroni, Peroni Nivaldo
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Dietary variability in Middle Holocene South American shellmounds: Insights from isotopic analysis and an adapted Bayesian MixSIAR model [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe degree of homogeneity in the diet of archaeological populations associated with Brazilian shellmounds (sambaquis) is an ongoing debate. Isotopic studies have the potential to document both intra- and inter-group dietary variability, especially when ...
Marina Di Giusto +2 more
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The Path towards Endangered Species: Prehistoric Fisheries in Southeastern Brazil. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Brazilian shellmounds are archaeological sites with a high concentration of marine faunal remains. There are more than 2000 sites along the coast of Brazil that range in age from 8,720 to 985 cal BP.
Mariana Samôr Lopes +13 more
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Middle Holocene plant cultivation on the Atlantic Forest coast of Brazil? [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 This work provides robust oral pathology and stable isotope evidence on Bayesian mixing model for an unexpectedly high consumption of carbohydrates by a Middle Holocene coastal population of the Atlantic Forest of South America, an area traditionally ...
Luis Pezo-Lanfranco +9 more
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Molecular and zooarchaeological identification of 5000 year old whale-bone harpoons in coastal Brazil [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsThe hunting of large whales has shaped the lifeways of many coastal communities for millennia, yet its origins remain debated, often associated with postglacial cultures in Arctic and subarctic regions dating to approximately 3500-2500 years ago.
Krista McGrath +10 more
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Late shellmound occupation in southern Brazil: A multi-proxy study of the Galheta IV archaeological site. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBrazilian coastal archaeology is renowned for its numerous and large shellmounds (sambaquis), which had been continuously occupied from at least 8000 to 1000 years cal BP. However, changes in their structure and material culture in the late Holocene have
Jessica Mendes Cardoso +14 more
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Quaternary, 2021 Recent advances in the archaeology of lowland South America are furthering our understanding of the Holocene development of plant cultivation and domestication, cultural niche construction, and relationships between environmental changes and cultural ...
Laura P. Furquim +11 more
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Land, 2021 This paper presents a heterarchical model for the regional occupation of the sambaqui (shellmound) societies settled in the southern coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Paulo DeBlasis +2 more
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Holocene molluscs from Rio de Janeiro state coast, Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2010 A list of marine species of bivalves and gastropods found in seventy archeological sites of the shellmound type from Rio de Janeiro state was produced, based on the archeological material deposited in the collections of Museu Nacional (Rio de Janeiro, RJ)
Rosa Cristina Souza +2 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2011 This study investigated strontium isotopes in the dental enamel of 32 human skeletons from Forte Marechal Luz sambaqui (shellmound), Santa Catarina, Brazil, aiming at identifying local and non-local individuals. The archeological site presents pot sherds
Murilo Q. R Bastos +5 more
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