http://www.teses.usp.br Last 10 publications of the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations of University of São Paulo Archaeology en Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-16052013-122630/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-16052013-122630/?&lang=en This study aims to present the possibilities that archaeometallurgy can provide to archeology, entered into a series of methods that, on the study of a diverse sample of materials, allow the approximation of knowledge of the various facets involved in understanding metallurgical activity and developing interpretations of the role and significance of metals in the society and economy of the communities of the past. According to this interdisciplinary approach, this work relies on the study of metal... tde@sc.usp.br (Troncoso, Lucas de Paula Souza) Master's Dissertation Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-18042013-102920/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-18042013-102920/?&lang=en This dissertation analyzes the ceremonial sites associated with a Southern Jê occupation in the city of Pinhal da Serra, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The sites consist in earthworks which can be either isolated or surrounding mounds. A classification is proposed considering the architectonic variability of the sites, according to earthwork size, shape, and the presence or absence of mounds. Excavation data which reveal activities performed in such places are also taken into consideration. The most... tde@sc.usp.br (Souza, Jonas Gregorio de) Master's Dissertation Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-12042013-163726/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-12042013-163726/?&lang=en This research presents a preliminary study about the petroglyphs from a sample area between Old Ayrão village and Branco river's mouth, at the lower Negro river basin, Western Brazilian Amazon. They comprise a corpus of open air and underwater Rock Art sites, fifteen (15) up until now, located on sandstone and granite riverine boulders and outcrops. Given the absence of archaeological stratified deposits, these sites can neither be excavated nor unequivocally related to adjacent ceramic sites in... tde@sc.usp.br (Valle, Raoni Bernardo Maranhão) Doctoral Thesis Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-16042013-144439/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-16042013-144439/?&lang=en This research has the objective to analyse the influence of the tyrannical governments of Syracuse in the urbanistic restructuration of this city, founded by Greeks in the middle of VII century B.C. For so, we are going to explore the written sources for writers who tells important aspects of Sicily. They are: Diodoro Sículo, first reference for Siracuse, Heródoto, Tucídides, Estrabão, Cícero, Políbio, Píndaro and Pausânias. We've been working with the archeological data at the very important areas... tde@sc.usp.br (Hora, Juliana Figueira da) Master's Dissertation Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-19042013-093054/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-19042013-093054/?&lang=en In this thesis I will present new data on Southern Jêsettlement patterns, and my interpretations regarding the history of these people, based on my case study, from the Upper Canoas River, Urubici region, in Santa Catarina state, Brazil. On the highland plateau, the High Altitude Grasslands (or Campos) and the Paraná Pine Forest dominate the landscape. In the Urubici hills, various headwaters begin in wetland areas, with shallow and rocky soils, on Campos, around 1800m altitude. These waters flow... tde@sc.usp.br (Corteletti, Rafael) Doctoral Thesis Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-18042013-111954/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-18042013-111954/?&lang=en The archaeological societies and institutions, like others scientific organizations, they are fundamental spaces in the encouragement and in the support an intellectual's network of the research´s area. They can, through the distribution of its publications, like the newsletters, in the editorial section, to reaffirm traditions or offer innovative perspectives. We analyzed thirty and four editorial texts in The South African Archaeological Bulletin, Nyame Akuma and Nsi, intending to understand structure... tde@sc.usp.br (Silva, Agatha Rodrigues da) Master's Dissertation Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-20122012-140908/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-20122012-140908/?&lang=en In view of the maroons studies and how archaeology is thrown to position themselves in these discussions, the present work discusses about the archaeological practices in maroons communities, contributing to the debates of the Community and Public Archaeology. For that, we presented the study etnoarchaeological within maroons of Mandira, located in the municipality of Cananéia, in the Ribeira Valley low. For archaeological research in maroon is crucial to understand the historical background of the... tde@sc.usp.br (Almeida, Fábio Guaraldo) Master's Dissertation Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-11042013-102411/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-11042013-102411/?&lang=en The thesis Occupations human precolonial on the island of São Luís - MA: inclusion of sites in the landscape, and material culture pottery chronology discussed the investigation into five archaeological sites located in Maranhão: sambaquis of Bacanga, Panaquatira, Paço do Lumiar and sites Vinhais Velho and Maiobinha I. The issue of research was initially outlined in 2005 dissertation on the Sambaqui Bacanga, which aimed to provide a chronology for the occurrence of pottery in this occupation fis... tde@sc.usp.br (Bandeira, Arkley Marques) Doctoral Thesis Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-11042013-161635/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-11042013-161635/?&lang=en This research aims at understanding the lithic industries related to shellmounds Bacanga, Panaquatira and Paço do Lumiar existing, respectively, in the municipalities of São Luís, São José de Ribamar and Paço do Lumiar, located on the island of São Luís, Maranhão. The sites where in a coastal region inserted in estuary environment and showed varying timelines between 3840 and 1420 years before present. The key concepts used to understand the industries were the operative chain and technological ... tde@sc.usp.br (Silva, Abrahão Sanderson Nunes Fernandes da) Doctoral Thesis Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-11042013-142930/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-11042013-142930/?&lang=en From this founding in 689/8 B.C. Gela, a sicilian polis, began the occupation of their territory - the khóra - around the urban center - the ásty. In the sixth century B.C. this occupation reached its maximum, extending through the valleys of the rivers Salso, Gelas-Maroglio and Dirillo, and through the montainous region north the Geloan Plain; when in contacted whith natives populations and with other Greeks established in the frontiers. It is remarkable the relationship between the definition of... tde@sc.usp.br (Tabone, Danilo Andrade) Master's Dissertation Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-27032013-173516/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-27032013-173516/?&lang=en The Imperial Crypt on the Independence Monument, located on the banks of Ipiranga creek in São Paulo city, was built in 1952 to house the human remains of the monarchs responsible for the Proclamation of Independence of Brazil. Emperor Dom Pedro I was transferred from Portugal to São Paulo in 1972 and his first wife, Empress Dona Maria Leopoldina von Habsburg-Lorraine, was transferred in 1954. In 1982 it received the remains of the second wife of Dom Pedro I, the Empress Dona Amélia de Beauharnais-Leuchtenberg.... tde@sc.usp.br (Ambiel, Valdirene do Carmo) Master's Dissertation Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-04032013-104349/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-04032013-104349/?&lang=en The main goal of this dissertation is to introduce the archaeological context of the Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve, situated near the middle course of the Amazon and the lower course of the Japurá Rivers, in the state of Amazonas; its management plan is currently under preparation. This context is then compared to the archaeology of other areas of Amazonia. Preliminary results of the archaeological survey carried out between 2006 and 2008 will be presented, during which time 32 archaeological... tde@sc.usp.br (Costa, Bernardo Lacale Silva da) Master's Dissertation Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-04032013-101003/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-04032013-101003/?&lang=en This research had as goal to verify traces of human occupation - historical and pre-historical - in a small region bounded to Serra da Cantareira, belonging to the sub-basin of the Juquery river and Serra da Cantareira, occupying lands in the cities of Caieiras, Guarulhos, Mairipora e Sao Paulo, for believing that the area may have been stage of human settlements since pre-historical times, including place of several cultural traditions different from the Tupiguarani, besides a human occupation after... tde@sc.usp.br (Carvalho, Marcos Rogério Ribeiro de) Doctoral Thesis Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-16012013-141541/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-16012013-141541/?&lang=en The present work aims to ponder on the importance of an interdisciplinary approach in Archaeology, in particular on the role of Tourism as an useful e interesting discipline to stimulate reflections about projects with the aim of a decolonizing Archaeology which is aware of its social role. In the study carried out in this thesis other two disciplines are important, namely Anthropology e Museology. From international examples that provide elements to instigate a debate over how Archaeological Tourism... tde@sc.usp.br (Alfonso, Louise Prado) Doctoral Thesis Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-15012013-171253/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-15012013-171253/?&lang=en This dissertation is resulted from an archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research study of pottery sets from historical archaeological sites - Tacaimbó 1 and Tacaimbó 2 - and of ethnographic pottery sets produced on local communities, both from Agreste Central region (Pernambuco state, Brazilian Northeast). Using an ethnoarchaeological approach for the historical archaeological sites analysis, and the decolonized and multivocal perspectives, the role of the archaeologist on traditional knowledge... tde@sc.usp.br (Amaral, Daniella Magri) Master's Dissertation Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-27112012-110410/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-27112012-110410/?&lang=en Brazilian archeology, along with its archeological heritage, is still little known to the great majority of the Brazilian society. This thesis maintains that Archeological Tourism is an activity not only able to disseminate the knowledge of archeological science but also and mainly to protect the archeological heritage. It is based on (i) discussions about this heritage's vulnerability partly due to archeological studies being carried out in Brazil as a result of the construction of great infrastructure... tde@sc.usp.br (Guimarães, Adriana Meinking) Doctoral Thesis Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-27112012-125012/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-27112012-125012/?&lang=en This research is turned to the archaelogical study of Jaó, one of the areas in the State of São Paulo, that in the year 2000, was categorized as remaining quilombo colony. The historical archaeological site of Jaó, is located in Itapeva, a town in the South East of the State. It is a property that stayed whole, without divisions between heirs, a small holding of peasants of african roots, formed in the years subsequent slavery abolition, and became private property with the decline of "tropeirismo".... tde@sc.usp.br (Marques, Sílvia Corrêa) Doctoral Thesis Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-01112012-165047/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-01112012-165047/?&lang=en This dissertation, On the direction of the Amazonian southwest periphery: archaeology in the Jiparaná basin, Rondonia, has as aim objective discuss some aspects found in the archeology of Rondonia State: pottery production and the Archaeological dark earth. Made this, we can have a better comprehension of the occupation of the Encontro archaeological site, object of study in our research. The Encontro site has evidence of litic and pottery sherds, and is located in the direction of the Amazonian... tde@sc.usp.br (Zimpel Neto, Carlos Augusto) Master's Dissertation Thu, 17 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-26102012-155142/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-26102012-155142/?&lang=en This work presents the results of a systematic analysis of data concerning the official mexica educational institutions in the context of the Triple Aliance´s political hegemony established by the governing powers of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tacuba. The temple-schools administrated by the mexica were mainly responsible for transmitting the military and religious precepts in order to prepare individuals for state matters and official duties. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the fundamental... tde@sc.usp.br (Madeira, Adriana Araujo) Master's Dissertation Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0300 http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-08102012-114846/?&lang=en http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/71/71131/tde-08102012-114846/?&lang=en The main point of this dissertation is to share an experience of extend the keys of knowledge related with cultural heritage in general and the archaeological heritage in specifically; under the context of environmental license at Amazonia. The intended is to do a groundwork ethnography of archaeology contract, evaluating the interpersonal relationships, social economics changes, the reciprocities and conflicts involved in this scene. It is also to measure the efficacy of actions shared with Juruti... tde@sc.usp.br (Sa, Lilian Panachuk de) Master's Dissertation