A Cultura Cerâmica do Tronco Tupí no alto Ji-Paraná, Rondônia, Brasil: Algumas Reflexões Teóricas, Hipotéticas e Conclusivas

• Autor(a) principal: Miller, Eurico Theofilo
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/ling/article/view/12288
• topic: arqueologia, linguística histórica, Prototupí, Proto-Tupíguaraní, Alto-Jiparaná.; Archaeology, historical linguistics, Proto-Tupí, Proto-Tupíguaraní, Alto-Jiparaná

In 1969 the ethno-historical and linguistic link of Tupí-Guaraní speakers to the related archaeological ceramics of the Brazilian Coastline was recognized and named Tupíguaraní. Since 1958, the native land of the Tupí linguistic stock is considered to be the area between the Guaporé-Madeira and Aripuanã rivers (Rodrigues 1958a, 1964), for containing six of its ten linguistic families (Rodrigues 1986). In 1913 Tupí-Guaraní speakers and settlements were met by the Rondon Mission on the high Ji-Paraná river, RO. Since 1974 we have been “in loco” testing this hypothesis theoretically and empirically with PROPA 1974-7/MT-RO, PRONAPABA 1978-83/RO-AM, GERO, Eletronorte, and CNEC. Besides corrugated and painted ceramics and burial urns as old as the native land, there are other characteristics of the Tupíguaraní type. The same association of archeological, ethno-historical, and linguistic data acknowledged on the Coastline was tested on the Tupían native land, yielding the same correlation. The empirical search for the native land of the Tupí branch reached its core through the correlation between the data provided by field archaeology, carbon datings, linguistics, and ethnic-historical sources.