Abstract
This paper presents a heterarchical model for the regional occupation of the sambaqui (shellmound) societies settled in the southern coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Interdisciplinary approaches articulate the geographical scope and environmental dynamics of the Quaternary with human occupation patterns that took place therein between the middle and late Holocene (approximately 7.5 to 1.5 ky BP). The longue durée perspective on natural and social processes, as well as landscape construction, evince stable, integrated, and territorially organized communities around the lagoon setting. Funerary patterns, as well as mound distribution in the landscape, indicate a rather equalitarian society, sharing the economic use of coastal resources in cooperative ways. This interpretation is reinforced by a common ideological background involving the cult of the ancestors, which seems widespread all over the southern Brazilian shores along that period of time. Such a long-lived cultural tradition has endured until the arrival of fully agricultural Je and Tupi speaking societies in the southern shores.
Highlights
Ciência da Computação Department, University of Tocantins (UFT), Palmas 77001-090, Brazil; Abstract: This paper presents a heterarchical model for the regional occupation of the sambaqui societies settled in the southern coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil
This paper presents a regional occupation model for the sambaqui societies settled in the southern coast of Santa Catarina, Brazil
In this peculiar lagoonal region, interdisciplinary approaches have focused on the geographical scope and environmental dynamics of the Quaternary, as well as on the human occupation patterns that took place in that peculiar coastal setting between the middle and late Holocene
Summary
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