“The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "“The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
The Brazilian archaeological record is greatly diverse and reflects widely different periods of colonization and occupation of several diverse biomes associated with a heterogeneous social complexity throughout time and space. In the last decades, many different theoretical frameworks, as well as many various methodological approaches, have been successfully applied in Brazilian archaeology to explore further traditional questions regarding cultural and biological diversity, chronology, landscape, and resource use, as well as to strengthen the dialogues between these themes and traditional communities’ practices. This symposium aims to present the current theoretical diversity used to approach the abovementioned research topics and promote a conversation about the intersection among different theoretical and methodological approaches.
Other Keywords
Paleoindian and Paleoamerican •
Lithic Analysis •
Cultural Transmission •
Bioarchaeology/Skeletal Analysis •
Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers •
Chronology •
Site Formation •
Ceramic Analysis •
geometric morphometrics •
Material Culture and Technology
Geographic Keywords
Barbados (Country) •
Co-operative Republic of Guyana (Country) •
Republic of Suriname (Country) •
Federative Republic of Brazil (Country) •
South America (Continent) •
Department of Guiana (Country) •
Republic of Paraguay (Country) •
Oriental Republic of Uruguay (Country) •
South America: Eastern South America •
South America
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Biodistance Studies of Riverine Shell-Mound Builders from Ribeira de Iguape Valley (São Paulo and Paraná, Brazil) (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "“The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Biodistance studies (craniometrics and aDNA) have been very useful tools to unravel the biological diversity of human populations in the past. In this abstract, we present biodistance analyses based on cranial measurements in order to...
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A Characterization of Archaeological Sites in the State of São Paulo: Some Notes (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "“The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, different pottery producers are described ethnohistorically, and the most expansive is the Tupiguarani Tradition. However, pre-European population relationships between the Tupiguarani and other...
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Late Pleistocene / Early Holocene Human Occupation along the Tietê River, São Paulo State, Brazil (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "“The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Tietê River is historically known as one of the main human displacement axes between the eastern portion of SE Brazil and the inner portions of the continent, being navigable for most of its course. The use of this waterway back to a...
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Paleoindian Sites and their Cultural Diversity in Southeast, Brazil: A Case Study from São Paulo State (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "“The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record for the early Holocene in Brazil shows great cultural diversity, suggesting the coexistence of different groups. Recently, we have noticed that São Paulo State does not behave differently. These distinct groups...
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Shaping the Past: A Geometric Morphometric Approach to the Diversity of Lithic Tools in São Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "“The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geometric morphometrics is a powerful analytical method developed in evolutionary biology to study, quantify, and compare shape variations in biological specimens. Archaeologists have been applying geometric morphometric methods (GMM) to...
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The Treasured Contribution of the Inner Ear to the Study of the Morphological Variation among Ancient Individuals from Brazil (2024)
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This is an abstract from the "“The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite almost 200 years of debate, there are still crucial aspects that we do not fully understand in relation to the evolutionary history of South Americans. One of the major obstacles has been the limited number of available early...