The Archaeology of Meaningful Places in Amazonia: the Teotônio Site (Upper Madeira Basin)
Author(s): Fernando Ozorio De Almeida; Eduardo Góes Neves; Guilherme Mongeló
Year: 2015
Summary
The aim of this presentation is to discuss the importance of the occupation of the so called meaningful places in Amazonia, such as rapids and waterfalls, in the development of regional networks which were archaeologically materialized by the concentration of different ceramic styles in the same site, and possibly through the appearance of new ceramic styles. We further argue that the economic viability of some of these places – and we present here the Teotônio site as an example - did not necessarily have to rely on the intensive production of staples, such as manioc and maize.
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The Archaeology of Meaningful Places in Amazonia: the Teotônio Site (Upper Madeira Basin). Fernando Ozorio De Almeida, Guilherme Mongeló, Eduardo Góes Neves. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 397512)
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Keywords
General
Archaeology of Amazonia
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Ceramic Styles
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Meaningful Places
Geographic Keywords
South America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;