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| Author(s): |
Fernando Walter da Silva Costa
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (MAE) |
| Defense date: | 2009-03-13 |
| Examining board members: |
Eduardo Goes Neves;
Marcia Angelina Alves;
Paulo Antonio Dantas de Blasis;
Helena Pinto Lima;
Wenceslau Geraldes Teixeira
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| Advisor: | Eduardo Goes Neves |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Archeology |
| Indexed in: | Banco de Dados Bibliográficos da USP-DEDALUS; Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações - USP |
| Location: | Universidade de São Paulo. Biblioteca do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia; TESE |
| Abstract | |
Until recently it was believed that the pre-colonial occupation of the Central Amazon region could be reduced to the period of the ceramic producing horticulturalists. This reality resulted from the absence of archaeological evidence for (the more ancient) societies with an economy based on hunting, gathering and processing of lithic resources. This panorama began to change October 2001 when the Dona Stella site was found. The excavations here showed a diversified lithic industry, including bifaces, projectile points and dates between 9460 and 4500 AP. The surveys in the region since then demonstrated that the best places to find evidence of hunter-gatherers were the sand-rich areas of the campinaranas, where outcrops of silicified sandstone occur, and that can be found near the streams belonging to the rio Negro basin. This model has been tested successfully in the municipalities of Iranduba and Manaus, helping identify more than twenty pre-ceramic sites in similar contexts. On the other hand, these sites are partially or completely destroyed and none of them has a lithic industry that is comparable, both in density and technological variability, with the first one found, the Dona Stella site, which, for now, is a unique case in Central Amazon. (AU) | |