TECHNOLOGICAL, MORPHOLOGIC, GRAPHIC AND MYTHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF GUARANI FUNERARY BOXES IN PARANAPANEMA PAULISTA REGION.

• Grant number: 11/08212-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: August 01, 2011
• End date: March 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Archeology - Prehistoric Archaeology
• Principal Investigator: Neide Barrocá Faccio
• Grantee: Thiago de Moraes dos Passos
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Presidente Prudente. Presidente Prudente , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research aims to analyse the technology employed to make ceramic basins which were used to prepare beverages and, later, used at the primary or secondary Guarani indians' burials at the valley of Paranapanema River. We intend to interpret, in the same way, the reasons why the graphics are present at Guarani ceramic basin. The funerary boxes, objects of study of this work, can be seen in exhibition at Museum of Archaeology (MAI), situated in Iepê City, state of São Paulo.