El uso de la arquitectura como artefacto en el estudio de paisajes arqueológicos del altiplano sur brasileño, Rio Grande do Sul

• Autor(a) principal: Copé, Silvia Moehlecke
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: spa
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/184296
• topic: Arqueologia; Bom Jesus (RS); Pinhal da Serra (RS); Planalto, Região (RS); Archaeological landscapes; Architectural structures; Southern Brazilian Highlands; Bom Jesús; Pinhal da Serra; Paisajes arqueológicos; Estructuras arquitectónicas; Altiplano surbrasileño; Bom Jesús; Pinhal da Serra

In the Southern Brazilian Highlands, there is a great diversity of archaeological sites built under the ground (underground and semi-underground structures = pit houses) and above it (relief structures). Such site variability had already been interpreted as the result of the occupation of that region by different human groups or in different periods. This essay deals with the hypothesis that the great formal, functional and spatial site variability derives from a diversity of activities performed by one population at the same time and it represents the way in which they conceive, interact, construct and represent their landscape. We will analyze these sites with architectural structures as artifacts, a strategy that will allow to better understand both their characteristics and insertion in the landscape. Through spatial distribution, visibility, visualization, and site hierarchy, it is possible to see in a clearer way how the human groups that occupied Bom Jesus and Pinhal da Serra - two micro regions that will be analyzed and compared here - constructed the archaeological landscapes.