Holocene coastal environmental changes inferred by multi-proxy analysis from Lago Formoso sediments in Maranhão State, northeastern Brazil

Moraes, Caio Alves de; Costa, Marcondes Lima da; Navarro, Alexandre Guida; Meneses, Maria Ecilene Nunes da Silva; Negrão, Leonardo Boiadeiro Ayres; Pöllmann, Herbert; Behling, Hermann

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2021.107234

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“…In this set, a Russian peat corer was carried out in which 3 dates were performed (Figure 10). The archaeological package is 48 centimeters deep and is composed of sediments and sand-colored Greenish black 5 GY 2/1 (Alves et al, 2021). The first 11 centimeters of the stratigraphy have less organic material dating from 856 -988 cal AD/1094 -962 cal BP.…”

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Formoso Stilt Village: An Incised-Punctate/Arauquinoid Tradition Phase in Maranhão, Brazilian Amazon

Navarro¹

2022

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Dwellings on stilts were a common type of construction in the lowlands of South America from the pre-colonial period to the present day. The main function of these houses on stilts is to protect their inhabitants from the constant Amazon floods during the rainy season. This article examines the Formoso stilt village, located in the Baixada Maranhense, in the easternmost portion of the Brazilian Amazon. The analysis of the pottery material revealed technological characteristics of the Incised-Punctate/Arauquinoid Tradition Phase of the Northeast of South America lowlands. Radiocarbon dating between 1566-1469 BP indicates that this stilt village is as old as those located in the Venezuela and Guianas, if not even older. Furthermore, the spatial distribution of stilts of the settlement corroborated to pottery analysis showed alinear/rectangular ceremonial space connected by stilts to the circular/residencial area. Formoso stilt village presents an unprecedented form of indigenous habitation never before described in Anthropology and Archaeology of the Lowlands of South America.

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Formoso Stilt Village: An Incised-Punctate/Arauquinoid Tradition Phase in Maranhão, Brazilian Amazon

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2022

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“…The name of the sites derived from the wooden posts that supported the villages built in the lakes of the estuarine region of Baixada Maranhense, in order to avoid contact with the waters (Alves de Moraes et al . 2021; Gonçalves et al . 2021; Navarro 2018a,b; Navarro et al 2017).…”

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Ancestral Waters: Material Culture, Notion of Transformation and Shamanism in the Stilt Villages in Eastern Amazonia

Navarro

2023

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This work aims to apply the theories of new materialities to the study of the material culture of the Formoso stilt village, a pre-colonial settlement from the ninth–tenth centuries ad, located in the Baixada Maranhense. Appliqués of the pottery bowls at this archaeological site present cosmological information regarding the transformation or metamorphosis of bodies, aspects that are fertile for the discussion of shamanism in the lowlands of South America, especially the Amazon. Classic concepts of anthropological ethnography applied to archaeology are used, contributing to the discussion on the diversity of ways to manufacture the body in the Amazon in its easternmost portion, such as that of the Master of Animals, a supernatural entity metamorphosed by the shaman and who could also have been part of the cosmology of the lake peoples of Maranhão, Brazil. Two artifacts depicting beings that have their feet turned backwards may be associated with the Curupira, thus evidencing a long-lasting history of this supernatural being that was recorded both in colonial documentation and in indigenous ethnography.

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GPR survey on underwater archaeological site: A case study at Jenipapo stilt village in the eastern Amazon region, Brazil

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Holocene coastal environmental changes inferred by multi-proxy analysis from Lago Formoso sediments in Maranhão State, northeastern Brazil

Cited by 11 publications

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Formoso Stilt Village: An Incised-Punctate/Arauquinoid Tradition Phase in Maranhão, Brazilian Amazon

Formoso Stilt Village: An Incised-Punctate/Arauquinoid Tradition Phase in Maranhão, Brazilian Amazon

Ancestral Waters: Material Culture, Notion of Transformation and Shamanism in the Stilt Villages in Eastern Amazonia

GPR survey on underwater archaeological site: A case study at Jenipapo stilt village in the eastern Amazon region, Brazil

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Holocene coastal environmental changes inferred by multi-proxy analysis from Lago Formoso sediments in Maranhão State, northeastern Brazil

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Formoso Stilt Village: An Incised-Punctate/Arauquinoid Tradition Phase in Maranh&#227;o, Brazilian Amazon

Formoso Stilt Village: An Incised-Punctate/Arauquinoid Tradition Phase in Maranh&#227;o, Brazilian Amazon

Ancestral Waters: Material Culture, Notion of Transformation and Shamanism in the Stilt Villages in Eastern Amazonia

GPR survey on underwater archaeological site: A case study at Jenipapo stilt village in the eastern Amazon region, Brazil

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Formoso Stilt Village: An Incised-Punctate/Arauquinoid Tradition Phase in Maranhão, Brazilian Amazon

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