Brazil (Geographic Keyword)

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Afro-Brazilian Spaces of Worship: Late Nineteenth Century Archaeological Findings from Salvador, Bahia (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samuel L. Gordenstein.

This paper discusses the transformation of domestic living quarters into spaces of Afro-religious worship in Salvador, Brazil, during the late nineteenth century. This is accomplished through the presentation of historical sources that demonstrate the pervasiveness of this phenomenon, and especially, analysis of spatial and artifactual data unearthed during archaeological excavations in a house basement. The study uses historical, ethnohistorical and ethnographic analogies with present day...

Archaeological Preservation and the Jesuit-Guarani Missions (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tobias Vilhena de Moraes.

This article presents the trajectory of ideas and concepts for Archaeological Preservation, developed during the Administration of Archaeological Heritage at four missionary Archaeological sites in the Southern region of Brazil: São Nicolau, São Lourenço Mártir, São João Batista and São Miguel Arcanjo. From the starting point of an archaeological analysis, and observing the legal and technical norms specified, observation was attempted as to how interface took place with the various areas which...

Archaeology by experiment (Japanese translation) (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Morton Coles.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us using the...

The archaeology of Slavery in Southern Brazil in Global Perspective (2013)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucio Menezes Ferreira.

Slavery in southern Brazilian plantations was a late colonial development, and was the result of the expansion of industrial relations in Europe and the expansion of capitalism worldwide. On the other hand, social relations in plantations were not only capitalist and linked to the market, but were the result of patriarchal society. The archaeological study of jerked beef plantations has helped to reveal all of these features, as the material culture of the sites is both imported and linked to a...

The Archaeology of the Lower Tapajos Valley, Brazil (1960)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Helen C. Palmatary.

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Archaeology of Urban Slavery In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tania Andrade Lima.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Historical Archaeology of Cities: Unearthing Complexity in Urban Landscapes", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Until recently the archaeology of the African diaspora in the Americas had focused its attention primarily on the plantations. Research conducted in urban areas, however, has shown the wealth of information extractable from city subsoils. As one of the most important ports of entry of Africans during...

Archeological Investigations at the Mouth of the Amazon (1957)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Betty J. Meggers. Clifford Evans.

Archäologische Interpretation und ethnographischer Befund: eine Analyse anhand rezenter Keramik des westlichen Amazonasbeckens. 2 parts (1969)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rüdiger Vossen.

Arqueologia Experimental (translation of ”archaeology by experiment” by TORRINHA, Maria Fernanda) (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Morton Coles.

Beached Lives in The Recife Port, Brazil: First Insights in Diets and Mobility of the People from Pilar Cemetery, 16th to the 18th centuries. (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Borges. Diane Wallman. Jonathan Bethard. Claudia Cunha. Ana Lucia do Nascimento Oliveira. Suely Cristina Albuquerque de Luna.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Port of Call: Archaeologies of Labor and Movement through Ports", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This research focuses on the city of Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil, from the 16th to the 18th centuries. Recently archaeological excavations inside the Port of Recife revealed that the occupation of the area was first established as a fortress in the 16th century. Later, the area became one of the main...

Behavioral variability and organization in ancient constructions: an experimental approach (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Izumi Shimada.

Über den Gebrauch de Steinaxt bei jetzt lebenden Indianer Südamerikas, Speziell Amazoniens (1906)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E Goldi.

Über südamerikanische Wurfhölzer im Københavner Museum (1889)

DOCUMENT Citation Only K Bahnson.

Cayua Culture Change: a Study in Acculturation and Methodology (1952)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James B. Watson.

Charles Orser and his Contributions to the Brazilian Historical Archaeology (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lucio Menezes Ferreira. Pedro Paulo Funari.

This is an abstract from the "The Transformation of Historical Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Charles E Orser, Jr" session, at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Professor Orser has been important to Brazilian Historical Archaeology in many ways: he has played an especially large role in detailing the subtleties of everyday resistance, mainly in his studies about "Quilombo dos Palmares"; he was the first American archaeologist (and the only one at this...

Confronting the Challenge of Analyzing Museum Collections with Limited Archival Data in Southern Brazil (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evelyn R. Nimmo.

One of the major challenges in working with museum collections of excavated material is the paucity of information available about the original excavation. What value do these collections have without any context? This paper examines a case study of an archaeological collection from one of the first Spanish Jesuit missions founded in Southern Brazil, housed at the Paranaense Museum, Curitiba, Brazil. The mission, Santo Inacio Mini (1610 – 1631), was the largest in the province and was integral...

Contributions Brazilian Navy's in the protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Martins Gusmao. Ricardo dos Santos Guimaraes.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. At the end of 2017, the Brazilian Navy launched a major campaign for awareness and protection of underwater cultural heritage located within jurisdictional waters of Brazil. This campaign is intended to share with the public the need to preserve and protect submerged archaeological sites, mainly shipwrecks, which in the past have been subjected to looting and improper exploitation. With...

Das Feuerbohren nach indianischer Weise (1903)

DOCUMENT Citation Only M Schmidt.

Der Ursprung des Mais - eine neue Theorie (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul C Mangelsdorf.

Die Töpferei der Naturvölker Südamerikas (1925)

DOCUMENT Citation Only K Dannenberg.

Die Verwendung der brasilianischen Steinäxte auf Grund von Experimenten (1908)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hermann von Ihering.

Differences Among Yanomama Indian Villages: Do the Patterns of Allele Frequencies, Anthropometrics, and Map Locations Correspond? (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. S. Spielman.

Early Seventeenth-Century ships (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nick Burningham.

Experimental archaeology: replicas and reconstructions (2009)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Séan Mcgrail.

An Experimental Reconstruction of Taruma Village Succession and Some Implications (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only B Meggers. C Evans.