The Origin of the Amazonian Ceramic Diversity Seen from the Monte Castelo Shell Mound

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Andean and Amazonian Ceramics: Advances in Technological Studies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In this presentation we will bring the latest archeological data from the Monte Castelo shell mound, one of the most important ceramic sites of the Amazon. Some of the oldest ceramics of the continent are found there and in this symposium the characteristics about the emergence of Bacabal phase and the new data about the local development of the first pottery of the southwestern Amazon, the Sinimbu ceramics, will be discussed. Technological and archaeometric analysis will be articulated with the deep Indigenous history in order to generate a multidisciplinary scenario about the social contexts of the emergence and diffusion of the ceramic technology in the of South American lowlands.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Andean and Amazonian Ceramics: Advances in Technological Studies   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37096.0