Navegando por Autor "ALVES, Daiana Travassos"

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Os bancos de cerâmica marajoara: seus contextos e possíveis significados simbólicos
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2011) ALVES, Daiana Travassos; SCHAAN, Denise Pahl
This article presents a study on the pottery stools of the marajoara phase of the Amazonian polychrome tradition, based on data obtained during fieldwork and laboratory analysis. Ethnohistorical and ethnographic information are used to construct hypotheses about the possible uses and meanings of the probable circular pottery seats found on the island of Marajó, which rare in other ethnographic and archaeological contexts. The absence of stools in funerary contexts is taken as an indication of its mundane use, although they may have been used in other ritual contexts as well. The analyses of these objects’ iconography, where incised designs predominate, suggest that they might mimic woven fiber mats; therefore it is logic they would serve as seats. Finally, an ethnographic description of a female castration ceremony is presented showing the use of four exotic and rare objects, which are all part of the marajoara phase material culture assemblage. The ethnographic analogy in this case brings new possibilities to understand the possible uses for marajoara phase stools.
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Ocupação indígena na foz do rio Tapajós (3260-960 AP): estudo do sítio Porto de Santarém, baixo Amazonas
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2012-11-21) ALVES, Daiana Travassos; SCHAAN, Denise Pahl; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9087840228167206
In Amazonian archeology, the Formative period (4000-2000 BP) is defined by sedentary settlements of people whose subsistence rely on agriculture, complemented by game, fish, and gathering. when agriculture became the generalized form of food production and societies became more sedentary. This period is important, among other things, because it precedes the development of regional societies around the beginning of the Christian Era. However, it is little known, either because of the small amount of recorded sites or by the lack of research. This dissertation presents the results on an investigation of the Formative contexts at the site Port of Santarem, in the lower Amazon, a region where the long sequence of occupation dates back to the Paleoindian Period. The investigation was design to observe such occupation at the Port site, seeking to understand its role in the dynamics of regional long-term occupation. The excavations reveled evidence of human occupation in the late pre-Columbian period (cal. AD 1020 to 1160) known as the Santarém phase of the Incised and Punctate Tradition, as well as an early occupation, at the base of the cultural layer, which corresponds to the Formative period (cal. 3160 a 3090 AP).