{"id":253531,"date":"2018-03-02T14:46:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=253531\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T14:46:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:46:06","slug":"small-pre-colonial-villages-in-northern-brazil-were-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/small-pre-colonial-villages-in-northern-brazil-were-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Small pre-colonial villages in northern Brazil were independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_253532\" style=\"max-width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/012_notas_262_09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-253532\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/012_notas_262_09-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">EDIVALDO PEREIRA<\/span><\/a> Ceramics from archaeological sites in Santar\u00e9m portray human\/animal hybrid figures<span class=\"media-credits\">EDIVALDO PEREIRA<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>A paper by archaeologist Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes, from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), argues that indigenous peoples who lived in the Santar\u00e9m region of Brazil between the years 1000 and 1600 developed complex societies that involved socio-political organization marked by the emergence of leadership structures, but did not live under a centralized power (<em>Cambridge Archeological Journal<\/em>, May 2017). Between 2006 and 2016, Gomes studied the layout and structure of 30 archaeological sites in a \u200b\u200b500-square-kilometer area, analyzing the iconography of ceramics found in the region and the ethno-historical accounts of chroniclers who passed through the Amazon in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In the area that today is the center of Santar\u00e9m, there were two large villages separated by a lake, which has now dried up. According to carbon dating, they were contemporary settlements with a high population density. Those who lived there maintained relationships, hunted, and fished on the banks of the Tapaj\u00f3s River. According to Denise, there was a demographic explosion in these two villages in the fourteenth century that generated conflicts and social separations between the inhabitants, leading many to disperse and create smaller, independent villages. &#8220;The ceramics from all the sites contain human\/animal hybrid figures, alluding to the notion of bodily metamorphosis, which is related to the idea of \u200b\u200binstability,&#8221; comments the archaeologist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Small pre-colonial villages in northern Brazil were independent","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[202],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-253531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-archaeology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253531"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=253531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}