“The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas

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.