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for the study of archaeological sites in the lowlands of Southeastern South America.

by Lucía T. Rombolá [1], Natacha Buc [2], Mirian Carbonera [3], Daniel Loponte [4], Camilla Speller [5], Jay Hilsden [5], Lindsey Paskulin [5]

In the southernmost part of South America, covering present-day southern Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina, diverse societies developed, including hunter-gatherers and groups with early agriculture. Written records from the 16th century, when Europeans arrived, provide descriptions of Indigenous peoples, their territories, subsistence, customs, and material culture. In southern Brazil, early European contact was Spanish before Portuguese dominance, which led to the underrepresentation of initial encounters in Brazilian academia.
Historical sources are valuable but challenging to connect with archaeological evidence due to the risk of direct analogies. Experimental archaeology contributes by expanding our understanding of past practices and allows us to establish correlations between historical sources and archaeological sites. In the lowlands of the study area, we conducted experimental research on ceramics and bone technology. Ceramic studies focused on methods for making holes in pottery vessels, while in studies of the operational chain of bone technology, we proposed physical tests to comprehend the selection of bone elements and created a database of local animal proteins using the methodology known as Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS).
Our goal is to develop a reference framework based on historical sources and experimental programs to make interpretations of the archaeological record.

[1] Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) - Programa de Pós-Graduação em História, Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS). Brazil [email protected]
[2] Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) - Instituto Municipal de Investigaciones Antropológicas de Chivilcoy - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Argentina
[3] Departamento de Ciencias Ambientais, Unochapecó - Centro de Memória do Oeste de Santa Catarina (CEOM). Brazil
[4] Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET) – Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano. Argentina
[5] Department of Anthropology, University of British Columbia. Canada