The People of the Lagoon: Sambaquis and Ecological Management on the Southern Brazilian Coast

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Human Behavioral Ecology at the Coastal Margins: Global Perspectives on Coastal & Maritime Adaptations" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Sambaquis (shellmounds) are conspicuous structures at ecologically productive and diversified coastal settings along the Brazilian extended seashore. We have studied one of those hot spots in some detail. At Santa Marta lagoon area, on the southern coast, mound builders have long occupied this dynamic Holocene setting (circa 8 to 1 ky BP), thriving into dense and territorially stable social organizational structures. This long and apparently undisturbed convivial with an ever-changing environment and its ecology seems to have led to technological refinement and resource management and intensification. We consider some evidence in this regard, and a few exploratory ethnographic proxies.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Human Behavioral Ecology at the Coastal Margins: Global Perspectives on Coastal & Maritime Adaptations   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23909