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| Author(s): |
Veronica Wesolowski
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2000-05-02 |
| Examining board members: |
Walter Alves Neves;
Maria Dulce Barcellos Gaspar de Oliveira;
Haiganuch Sarian
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| Advisor: | Walter Alves Neves |
| Abstract | |
The horticulture practice among Brazilian pre-historic groups is an important issue which investigation faces the absence, almost complete, of vegetables remains satisfactorily preserved. As a result, in most cases, the usage of cultigens uses to be inferred from indirect evidences and ethnographic analogy, mainly concerning the seaside environment context. Some researchers have tried alternatives in the Biological Anthropology, aiming, this way, to add biological and cultural information, intending to build a more complex information matrix about the question. It is within this bioanthropological approach that the present work is inserted, as long as it proposes to incorporate to the archeological data other data generated from the osteological markers related to the subsistence and to the carbohydrate consumption. The research begun from the hypothesis, constructed by the Archeology, that the groups accountable for the Itararé ceramics settlements (coastal camps) in the São Francisco bay area, in the Santa Catarina state, would have a agricultural subsistence system, while the sambaqui groups without ceramics in the same region would be gatherers-fishers. The behaviour related to caries, oclusal wear, antemortem tooth loss, periapical abscess, linear enamel hypoplasia and criba orbitalia were analyzed in 10 skeletal series originated from the sites without ceramics and in 3 series excavated in sites (or depositional layers) with ceramics. The several patterns found were discussed under the light of the archeological evidences and from a critical postura regarding the osteological markers capability to answer questions about subsistence. The results pointed to the need of a revision in the established hypotheses, about the vegetable consumption, concerning the subsistence strategies implemented by the pre-historic sambaqui groups and coastal camps in the focused region. (AU) | |