Indicadores de gênero na pré-história brasileira

Contexto funerário, simbolismo e diferenciação social - O sítio arqueológico Gruta do Gentio II, Unaí, Minas Gerais

Bibliographic Data

ID5770189
AuthorsGlaucia Aparecida Malerba Sene (corresponding author)
Year2008
Publication date2008-02-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeTHESIS
PublisherUniversidade de São Paulo. Agência de Bibliotecas e Coleções Digitais (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.11606/t.71.2008.tde-03042008-115634
OpenAlexW1555219406
LanguagePT
Citations received7
References cited36

The aim of this work is to investigate the social and symbolic relations of gender in Brazilian prehistory, based on the study of human funerary rituals and bone remains of horticulturist populations in the northeast of Minas Gerais state who in a seasonal and constant form, in the period 1540 BC to 1540 AC, used the caverns at Gruta do Gentio II to perform their funerary rituals.Our study is divided in two parts based on the variables related to the funerary ritual (handling, position and orientation of the corpse, direction of the face, grave characteristics, distribution in space and time, grave goods) and to the bone and teeth remains respectively (sex, age, fractures, illnesses, Harris lines, supplementary tibia facets, joint surfaces degeneration of the axial and appendicular skeleton, and also caries, dental abrasion, hypoplasia, periodontal illness, calculus, dental abscesses and ante-mortem tooth loss).In a symbolic theoretical-interpretative perspective based on the gender archaeology, postprocessualism and cognitive archaeology, as well as the bioarchaeological analytic methods, we believe that it is possible to understand part of the social roles performed mainly by men and women but also by children and teenagers in the archaeological context of Gruta do Gentio II, Unaí, Minas Gerais

Archaeology · Art · Bioarchaeology · Geography · Grave goods · Humanities · Prehistory · Dental Health and Care Utilization · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Paleopathology and ancient diseases