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Shark Remains in Brazilian Coastal Settlements (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "Past Human-Shark Interactions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Precolonial Brazilian coastal sites are rich in shark centra and teeth. They are frequently found inside the sediment matrix or as funeral deposits. The presence of shark teeth has been approached from zooarchaeological and ethnohistorical perspectives along with experimental archaeology and use-wear analysis. The Rio do Meio site was used as a study case....