Understanding the occupation history of oversized pit houses in the southern Brazilian highlands: Bayesian modelling and high resolution chronology of the Baggio 1 site
Author(s): Jonas DeSouza; Mark Robinson; Jose Iriarte; Francis Mayle; Paulo DeBlasis
Year: 2016
Summary
The function of the oversized pit houses constructed by southern proto-Je groups in the southern Brazilian highlands has been a matter of debate for decades. In this paper, we contribute to the debate by presenting a unique sequence from House 1 of the Baggio 1 site in Campo Belo do Sul, Santa Catarina state. For the first time, we obtained a large number of radiocarbon dates for twelve occupation floors in an oversized pit structure. We applied Bayesian modelling to develop a fine-grained chronology of the occupation history of House 1. This allowed us to tie observed changes in material culture, maintenance practices and abandonment modes in House 1 to an absolute, high resolution chronology.
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Understanding the occupation history of oversized pit houses in the southern Brazilian highlands: Bayesian modelling and high resolution chronology of the Baggio 1 site. Jonas DeSouza, Mark Robinson, Jose Iriarte, Francis Mayle, Paulo DeBlasis. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 404690)
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Keywords
General
Bayesian modelling
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Pit Houses
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southern Brazilian highlands
Geographic Keywords
South America
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