“…They are located in areas with high availability of resources for the past populations, especially on ecotones comprising estuarine or lagoon environments along with restingas , coastal forests, and on rocky islands. The Quaternary records recovered in these archaeological sites, such as shells, teeth, bones, carapaces, spines, spicules, phytoliths, charcoal, and others, are tools used not only for archaeological interpretations (Scheel-Ybert 2014), but also for studies on biodiversity, palaeoenvironments, marine paleontology, and radiocarbon ( 14 C) dating for example (Golfieri et al 1998; Scheel-Ybert 2000; Martinez et al 2006; Gordillo et al 2008; Suguio 2010; Aguirre et al 2011; Charó et al 2014; Souza Faria 2014; Alves et al 2015a; 2015b; Carvalho et al 2015; Macario et al 2015a; Souza et al 2016; Lopes et al 2016; Cancelli et al 2017; Coe et al 2017; Silva et al 2017).…”