Análise arqueológica histórica das modificações ambientais e das interações socioculturais em Gurupá, entre 1690 e 1770

Abstract

The documentary sources researched so far have shown that the Gurupá Fortress underwent at least three attempts at reconstruction: 1691, 1762 and 1771 - dates that mark intense landscape and socio-cultural changes in this locality. This work aims to clarify daily aspects of Gurupá during this period, given the need for a study that analyzes the social dynamics and environmental intervention that occurred with the increase in population. For this purpose, another documental survey is necessary in the search for conflicting and contradictory aspects that involved the population living near the Fortress. João VI asks Alexandre de Souza Freyre, governor and captain general of the state of Maranhão, to expel three religious from the aforementioned village, because "(...) the most of them continually deny to the war corporal all the Indians who seek him for my service, defending them with weapons, and decomposing them all, as happened with the corporal of the Gorupá Fortress Jozê Bernardo Pessoa (...)". Therefore, confronting this documental information with theoretical references involving the environmental and landscape study of Gurupá will allow us to relate this data to the archeological research to be developed in this locality.