Landscapes of the Mid-Low Xingu: Archaeology, Temporality, and *Longue Durée Indigenous Stories

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in the Xingu River Basin: Long-Term Histories, Current Threats, and Future Perspectives" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This presentation deals with the archaeological research carried out in the indigenous land Koatinemo, together with the Asurini do Xingu Indigenous people. From this experience, a reflection on the temporality of the landscapes and on the *longue durée Indigenous stories of the mid-low Xingu region was performed. Two horizons of reflection were combined on the approach. The first one deals with persistent places interconnected with the experience of living in the places, the contact with the historical narratives, and the Asurini’s oral tradition. The second one concerns the artifactual landscape that has been materially transformed over the time and consists of visible marks left by different human activities throughout the time. In methodological terms, the study applies techniques of archaeological survey and analysis of ceramic collections from the identified archaeological sites in the referred Indigenous land. At the end, the communication presents a contribution on current knowledge about the Indigenous ancestry of the landscape and the way it is related to the history of the Asurini and of the populations of Juruna and Karib languages from the mid-low Xingu.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Archaeology in the Xingu River Basin: Long-Term Histories, Current Threats, and Future Perspectives

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Abstract Id(s): 32922