Technology, subsistence and territoriality: changing patterns in the middle to late Holocene on the Central Brazilian plateau

Summary

During the middle to late Holocene a series of archaeological sites in central-north Minas Gerais state, located in the southwest of the Central Brazilian Plateau, show a context marked by the presence of an expedient lithic technology, no pottery, human burials and structures made of botanical remains. These structures contained domesticated plants, such as maize, manioc, cotton, bottle gourd, squash, peanut and native plants, such as palm nuts, passion fruit, jatobá, umbu and pequi. In this presentation we argue that this context is intimately related to a process of changing territoriality that took place in Central Brazil during the mid-Holocene, which is closely related to paleoenvironmental changes that marked the archaeological record during this period.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• From pollen to pottery: new insights on the interplay of society and environment in South America during the last 2000 years

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