Human mobility in the ancient Amazon isotopic archaeology of burials from the Monte Castelo shellmound and the bioavailability of strontium in the South America lowlands

• Grant number: 19/26285-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: June 01, 2020
• End date: May 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Archeology - Prehistoric Archaeology
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Góes Neves
• Grantee: Francisco Antonio Pugliese Junior
• Host Institution: Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 19/07794-9 - Human-environment relationships in Pre-Columbian Amazonia, AP.TEM
• Associated scholarship(s): 21/15158-5 - Human mobility in the Ancient Amazon: isotopic archaeology and the bioavailability of strontium in the South America lowlands, BE.EP.PD

Abstract

Recent research confirms that the stratigraphic layers of the mid to upper Holocene of the Monte Castelo sambaqui (Shellmound - São Francisco do Guaporé - RO) have a high density of human burials, characterizing the site as an eminent funerary monument of the Southwestern Amazon during that period. Ongoing excavations have evidenced a representative set of these funerary structures and the production of isotopic data about them will allow mobility patterns to be investigated in relation to regional paloenvironments. This project proposes to carry out isotopic analyzes of strontium, focusing on mapping the signatures of dental enamels and other biological materials from Monte Castelo and beyond, comparing them with data from other sites, such as Hatahara, in the Central Amazon. In addition to studies on human mobility in the past, the data produced will be geoprocessed to form an archaeological isoscape of strontium bioavailability in the Southwestern Amazon. By the end of this project, the mapping of human mobility in the ancient Amazon will have been initiated and will be open to permanent updating. (AU)

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)

CALO, CRISTINA MARILIN; RIZZUTTO, MARCIA A.; PEREZ, CARLOS A.; MACHADO, ROGERIO; FERREIRA, CAUE G.; AGUERO, NATASHA F.; FURQUIM, LAURA P.; NEVES, EDUARDO G.; PUGLIESE, FRANCISCO A.. Some Notes on Dense Structures Present in Archaeological Plant Remains: X-ray Fluorescence Computed Tomography Applications. MINERALS, v. 12, n. 9, p. 19-pg., 2022-09-01. (19/26285-8, 21/15158-5, 16/12867-7)