Levantamento bibliográfico das informações relativas aos sítios arqueológicos da Ilha de Marajó

Abstract

Since the final decades of the 19th century, Marajó Island has been visited by naturalists and researchers, collectors and the curious in general in search of prehistoric pottery that can be found in numerous archaeological sites distributed over a vast region in the center of the Island. The present work aimed to gather the information produced since then in order to synthesize the existing data, contributing to future studies. The material used in this research consisted of field reports and published works, and the information obtained was processed in lists, tables and sheets. Archeological collections of Marajoara pottery taken from the treasures of Marajó Island are part of the collections of private collectors and museums in Brazil, the United States and Europe, and our work began an inventory of this material. So far 52 archeological sites belonging to different cultures and chronological periods have been officially registered, but many other known sites remain without precise location and study. There seems to be no pattern to the size and shape of the sites, with large variations even for the same culture. The only regularity concerns the dispersion zone of human occupation, which is the same for all known cultures.