The Amazonian Polychrome Tradition and the socio-political transformations on the lakes and rivers of the mid-upper Solimões

• Grant number: 18/21941-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: January 01, 2019
• End date: May 25, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Archeology - Prehistoric Archaeology
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Góes Neves
• Grantee: Rafael Cardoso de Almeida Lopes
• Host Institution: Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 21/11357-3 - Understanding the polychrome tradition expansion in Central Amazon (1400-400 BP) through GIS-based approaches and chronological analysis, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

This project aims to approach the possible historical meanings related to the presence and dispersion of the Amazonian Polychome Tradition (APT) ceramics in the mid-upper Solimões River. The study is justified by the importance of researches about the APT, an important theme within Amazonian archeology, and by the possibilities provided by the referred regional context, with a set of evidences that points to coexistence between APT producers and other groups that changes over time. From the surveys and excavations in the region, as well as technological analysis of their ceramic materials, the proposal is to test the hypothesis that the relations between groups underwent transformations around the XII century AD. These changes, in turn, shaped the socio-political landscape of indigenous communities found by Europeans in the 16th century AD, characterized by the presence of populous villages on the banks of the Solimões River.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

THIAGO KATER; RAFAEL DE ALMEIDA LOPES. Braudel nas Terras Baixas: caminhos da Arqueologia na construção de Histórias Indígenas de longa duração. Revista de História, n. 180, 2021-12-03. (18/24509-3, 18/21941-1)