An Independent Center of Early Ceramic Production in SW Amazonia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Monte Castelo has one of the earliest records of ceramic production in the New World. Occupation of the site dates to between 6000 and 700 BP and demonstrates covariances between technological changes and environmental scenarios since the beginning of its chronology. We present petrographic, chemical, and isotopic data on ceramics from different periods to unveil the history of these materials, the very first known record of local development of ceramic technology in the American continent. The analyses permit the identification of possible sources of raw materials and their relationship to the construction of the site, shedding new light on long-term processes of landscape formation in the Amazon.

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An Independent Center of Early Ceramic Production in SW Amazonia. Francisco Pugliese, Roberto Ventura Santos, Carlos Zimpel, Eduardo Neves. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467695)

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Spatial Coverage

min long: -81.914; min lat: -18.146 ; max long: -31.421; max lat: 11.781 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 33249