Estudo espacial da distribuição do material lítico na Gruta do Pequiá

Abstract

The discovery of the Gavião Cave in Carajás (1986) creates a watershed in studies regarding the presence of prehistoric hunters in the Brazilian Amazon. In this sense, the present work focuses on a specific site that provides evidence of these hunter-gatherers, also located in Carajás: the Gruta do Pequiá. It is in this site that the present work will aim to understand how the organization of space by these prehistoric hunter-gatherers took place. This analysis will not only allow inferences to be made about the organization within the site, but will also allow inferences to be made about the organization between sites. Since this spatial analysis has already been partially carried out, based on organic remains and some references to ceramic remains, as shown in A Physis da Origem (MAGALHAES, 2005), in this new stage, the analysis of spatial distribution will take as a starting point the lithic material from squares Q6, P6, 06, N6, M6, L6, K6, J6, 16, H6 and G6. The need for a theoretical contextualization of spatial analysis and social organization of space, as well as the identification of the concepts employed in the theories examined in relation to the theme of the research, led us to conduct a bibliographic search in the scientific literature of archeology that dealt with the analysis of sites as archeological objects. This search was carried out in periodicals and books from the library of the Emílio Goeldi Museum, as well as in Internet pages, resulting in a list subdivided into readings that deal with intra-site and inter-site analyses.