Building Histories of Territory Formation: The Case of Southern Jê Expansion, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this paper we discuss the expansion process of southern Jê groups since 1400 BP until today. Working with

Zedeño´s proposal of territorial history (Zedeño 1997), we explore the available archaeological and ethnographic data to propose phases of establishment, maintenance and transformation of territories occupied by Southern Jê groups since, at least, 1400 BP. To do that we explore the interaction dynamics between Southern Jê groups with different cultural groups that inhabited the same or adjacent region during this period: hunter-gatherers related to Umbu tradition, fisher-hunter-gatherers related to Sambaqui occupation, Guarani groups, and Europeans after AD 1500. We focus in the region that nowadays corresponds to Santa Catarina State and we use published data as well as new data from recent excavations realized by the LEIA/UFSC.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25676