Understanding the polychrome tradition expansion in Central Amazon (1400-400 BP) through GIS-based approaches and chronological analysis

• Grant number: 21/11357-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: February 06, 2022
• End date: May 31, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Archeology - Prehistoric Archaeology
• Principal Investigator: Eduardo Góes Neves
• Grantee: Rafael Cardoso de Almeida Lopes
• Supervisor: Philip Riris
• Host Institution: Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Bournemouth University (BU), England
• Associated to the scholarship: 18/21941-1 - The Amazonian Polychrome Tradition and the socio-political transformations on the lakes and rivers of the mid-upper Solimões, BP.DR

Abstract

This project presents a plan for a six-month international research internship (BEPE) as part of the proponent's doctoral research, funded by the 'Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo' (FAPESP) and supervised by Dr. Eduardo Góes Neves. The BEPE internship is programmed to occur in Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom (UK) between the months of December 2021 and June 2022 and will be supervised by Dr. Phillip Riris with collaboration from Dr. Mark Gillings. The project focus will be the training and application of computational archaeology studies, especially chronological analysis techniques and GIS-based approaches, which both researchers are experts in, to the study of long-term precolonial Amazonian historical processes, particularly the dispersal of Amazonian Polychrome ceramic tradition, a process known as Polychrome Expansion. With training and guidance from UK supervisor, I intend to test a hypothesis of two distinct moments of the Polychrome Expansion evidenced by transformations in pottery production and settlement patterns building a dataset with this evidence from the AmazonArch database. Investigation paths and results will be compiled in a paper with Brazil and UK supervisors. (AU)