Arqueologia na região dos interflúvios Xingu-Tocantins: a ocupação tupi no Cateté. / Archaeology in the watershed Xingu-Tocantins region: the ocupation of Tupi in the Cateté River

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

07/03/2012

RESUMO

Located in the Xingu, Araguaia and Tocantins Rivers watershed, the Cateté River region has a longstanding history of indigenous settlements. Such history was recorded through archaeological sites where fragments of pottery connected to the Incised Rim and Barrancoid traditions were found - the sites date back as far as 190 AD, and are related to the expansion of the Aruak indigenous people - and also through the settlement of the Kaiapó indigenous people of Jê language, which have been living in the Cateté River region since the 19th Century. There are records, which date back as far as 280 AD, of the presence of Tupi indigenous peoples in the region during the wide interval between the settlements of the societies mentioned above could be found. This picture, in part, is supported by the results of formal variability studies of fragments of pottery found in the archaeological sites of Mutuca and Ourilândia 2, and also by the review of regional archaeological phases: the Itacaiunas and Carapanã phases. The fragments of pottery connected with the settlement of the Tupi peoples in the Mutuca site contextualized regionally as part of the the Itacaiúnas phase. As to the Carapanã phase we propose that it be subjected to review, for this phase is subject to the space/time variation of the Incised Rim and Barrancoid traditions, which have been identified locally in the Ourilândia 2 site and in the records of more ancient establishments in the Mutuca site. This review supports the hypothesis that there is a correspondence between the technological style of the pottery of the Carapanã (Medium Xingu and Itacaiúnas) and the Ipavu (Upper Xingu) phases. Both of them are connected to the same archaeological traditions. This being the case, the Carapanã phase would represent the period when the ancestors of the Aruak peoples reached southern Amazon and settled in the region of Upper Xingu around 800 AD.

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amazon archeology araguaia and tocantins rivers arqueologia amazônica carapanã phase cerâmica estilo tecnológico fases itacaiunas e carapanã história indígena indigenous history interflúvios xingu-araguaia-tocantins itacaiúnas phase pottery technological style watershed of xingu

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