Microbotanical analyzes in mound sites of the Bolivian Amazon

• Grant number: 20/02485-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2020
• End date: July 31, 2023
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Archeology - Prehistoric Archaeology
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Góes Neves
• Grantee: Lautaro Maximilian Hilbert
• 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

Abstract

This project will apply analyzes of microbotanic traces (phytoliths and starch grains) within the Bolivian archaeological sites included in the PIMA project. Such sites consist of lomas, artificial mounds that have been built and occupied by indigenous populations since the early holocene. Better understanding the chronological and archaeological variability of the lomas is a fundamental part of the PIMA project, as well as identifying the diachronic variability of food production systems related to the emergence, and eventual abandonment, of such sites. In the case of this post-doc, this variability will be considered through the traces of plants present in sediments and artifacts from the lomas, together with soils from off-site contexts that could contribute to understanding the spatiality of cultivation practices around the sites. (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)

HILBERT, LAUTARO; ALVES, DAIANA TRAVASSOS; NEVES, EDUARDO GOES; IRIARTE, JOSE. A glimpse into shell mound builders' diet during mid-to-late Holocene on Marajo island. VEGETATION HISTORY AND ARCHAEOBOTANY, v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2023-06-12. (20/02485-5, 19/07794-9)