Jonas Gregorio De Souza
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 201842 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jonas Gregorio De Souza |
| NOMBRES | Jonas Gregorio |
| APELLIDO | De Souza |
| FIRMA | DE SOUZA J G |
| AFILIACIONES | Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6032-4443 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 150 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Hidden in Plain Sight
Investigating pre-Columbian floristic legacy effects using machine learning in the southern Atlantic Forest, Brazil
The scope and scale of past human impacts on both historic and current vegetation is of widespread interest in the historical sciences. In the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil (Portuguese: Mata Atlântica), previous work has identified Amerindian settlement and land-use as a probable driver of the extent and composition of forest cover, with time-extended legacies that remain detectable in modern floristic inventories. Previously published inves…
Assessing the Role of Plant Seasonalities on the Regional Organisation of the Tapajó Society
Human food practices involve procurement and production activities, including cleaning, planting, weeding, fertilisation, irrigation, and management, all influenced by seasonality. Plant phenology is the main seasonality index in Amazonian food production. This exploratory study reviews Tapajó archaeobotanical data to estimate how seasonal planting and harvesting affected regional organisations. The data originate from four Tapajó habitation site…
A statistical reassessment of rongorongo texts I, Gv, and T
The content of rongorongo texts I (Santiago Staff), Gv (verso of the Small Santiago Tablet), and T (Honolulu Tablet) has been debated, with hypotheses ranging from name lists and genealogies to cosmogonic chants. This study analyses glyph collocations in these texts, focusing on their relationship with sign 76. Segmentation of text I reveals that it can be divided into at least two segments, with the second segment sharing glyphs with short inscr…
Spatial analysis of Amazonian Dark Earth formation supports an anthropic origin at the Caldeirão site, Brazil
Refining the Chronology and Occupation Dynamics of the Mound Villages of South-Eastern Acre, Brazil
This paper summarises recent test excavations at five Mound Village sites in the south-eastern sector of Acre state, Brazil, including Caboquinho, Boa Esperança, Tocantins, Dos Circulos IV and V. Radiocarbon dates obtained from the excavation of this site refine the chronology of this archaeological tradition. To improve the chronologies of the mound villages in Acre for which radiocarbon dates were available, we modelled them using Bayesian stat…
The origins of Amazonian landscapes
Geometry by Design
Recent research has shown that the entire southern rim of Amazonia was inhabited by earth-building societies involving landscape engineering, landscape domestication and likely low-density urbanism during the Late Holocene. However, the scale, timing, and intensity of human settlement in this region remain unknown due to the dearth of archaeological work and the logistical difficulties associated with research in tropical forest environments. A c…
Delayed demographic transition following the adoption of cultivated plants in the eastern La Plata Basin and Atlantic coast, South America
Understanding past population dynamics in lowland South America relative to changes in subsistence is crucial for drawing comparisons with global processes. Here, we use aggregated radiocarbon data as a palaeodemography proxy for in the eastern La Plata Basin and adjacent Atlantic coast, southeastern South America. Our results show that population dynamics in the study area are best explained by a three-phase model consisting of exponential growt…
Anthropogenic soil and settlement organisation in the Bolivian Amazon
Anthropogenic soils known as Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) have long been known as a key component of subsistence systems for various pre‐Columbian Amazonian populations. Often treated as a single category, ADE systems consist of two broad anthrosols (human‐modified soils): the darker ADE (traditionally known as terra preta ) and a lighter brown Amazonian Brown Earth (ABE; traditionally known as terra mulata ). Data on the characteristics and spat…
Water, movement and landscape ordering
The legacy of 4,500 years of polyculture agroforestry in the eastern Amazon
Rethinking households, communities and status in the southern Brazilian highlands
Reassessing climate and pre-Columbian drivers of paleofire activity in the Bolivian Amazon
Novas perspectivas para a cartografia arqueológica Jê no Brasil meridional
Os grupos Jê do Sul foram por muito tempo percebidos através da ótica do 'modelo padrão', que os considerava demograficamente reduzidos, isolados e nômades. Entretanto, os recentes avanços da arqueologia no Sul do Brasil tornaram possível questionar tal modelo. Neste artigo, nosso objetivo principal é demonstrar, através do mapeamento dos sítios arqueológicos e de suas datações, que podem ser identificadas áreas de alta densidade populacional com…
Moieties and Mortuary Mounds
Excavations at Abreu Garcia provide a detailed case study of a mound and enclosure mortuary complex used by the southern proto-Jê in the southern Brazilian highlands. The recovery of 16 secondary cremation deposits within a single mound allows an in-depth discussion of spatial aspects of mortuary practices. A spatial division in the placement of the interments adds another level of duality to the mortuary landscape, which comprises: (1) paired mo…
The genesis of monuments
Moiety specific wood selection in funerary ritual for the southern proto-Jê
Emergent Complexity, Changing Landscapes, and Spheres of Interaction in Southeastern South America During the Middle and Late Holocene
Newly created academic programs at Brazilian universities have provided the impetus for new archaeological projects in southeastern South America during the last two decades. The new data are changing our views on emergent social complexity, natural and human-induced transformation of the landscape, and transcontinental expansions and cultural interactions across the Río de la Plata basin during the Middle and Late Holocene. We concentrate on six…
Out of Amazonia
The late-Holocene expansion of the Tupi-Guarani languages from southern Amazonia to SE South America constitutes one of the largest expansions of any linguistic family in the world, spanning ~4000 km between latitudes 0°S and 35°S at about 2.5k cal. yr BP. However, the underlying reasons for this expansion are a matter of debate. Here, we compare continental-scale palaeoecological, palaeoclimate and archaeological datasets, to examine the role of…
News from the field ou como um projeto internacional começa a sair do papel
O presente texto apresenta as questões centrais de pesquisa do projeto Paisagens Jê do Sul do Brasil e também traz resultados preliminares do primeiro ano de atividades de pesquisa em Arqueologia e Paleoecologia
Paisagem ritual no planalto meridional brasileiro
Nesta dissertação são analisados os sítios cerimoniais associados à ocupação Jê do Sul no município de Pinhal da Serra, RS.Os sítios são compostos por aterros anelares (muros de terra) isolados ou cercando montículos.É proposta uma classificação que leva em conta a variabilidade arquitetônica de tais sítios, conforme as dimensões dos aterros, seu formato e a presença ou ausência de montículos.São considerados também os dados de escavações que evi…
Áreas de atividade em dois centros cerimoniais Jê do Sul
Neste artigo, apresento a análise das estruturas e conjuntos artefatuais de dois sítiosde aterros anelares com montículos Jê do Sul. Ambos apresentam anexos quadrangulares em sua arquitetura e grande quantidade de material lítico, diferenciando-se de outros sítios da mesma categoria
Southern Jê earthworks and burial mounds
Neste artigo comparo diferentes sítios de aterros e montículos funerários Jê escavados em Pinhal da Serra, Rio Grande do Sul. O primeiro tipo consiste em dois pequenos aterros circulares cercando montículos com sepultamentos cremados. O segundo apresenta um grande aterro circular unido a um muro retangular e cercando três montículos. A arquitetura dos sítios, o dispêndio de energia em sua construção e as atividades realizadas nos mesmos sugerem d…
Novas perspectivas sobre a arquitetura ritual do planalto meridional brasileiro
Neste artigo apresentamos o resultado de escavações em montículos e aterros anelares Jê do Sul no município de Pinhal da Serra, RS. Fazemos uma distinção entre pequenos aterros cercando montículos funerários e grandes aterros cercando uma praça interna. Em um montículo funerário encontramos dois sepultamentos cremados, um primário e o outro secundário. Um grande aterro apresentou, em sua estratigrafia, evidências de que a terra usada em sua const…
Emergent Complexity, Changing Landscapes, and Spheres of Interaction in Southeastern South America During the Middle and Late Holocene
Newly created academic programs at Brazilian universities have provided the impetus for new archaeological projects in southeastern South America during the last two decades. The new data are changing our views on emergent social complexity, natural and human-induced transformation of the landscape, and transcontinental expansions and cultural interactions across the Río de la Plata basin during the Middle and Late Holocene. We concentrate on six…
Out of Amazonia
The late-Holocene expansion of the Tupi-Guarani languages from southern Amazonia to SE South America constitutes one of the largest expansions of any linguistic family in the world, spanning ~4000 km between latitudes 0°S and 35°S at about 2.5k cal. yr BP. However, the underlying reasons for this expansion are a matter of debate. Here, we compare continental-scale palaeoecological, palaeoclimate and archaeological datasets, to examine the role of…
Reassessing climate and pre-Columbian drivers of paleofire activity in the Bolivian Amazon
Water, movement and landscape ordering
Novas perspectivas para a cartografia arqueológica Jê no Brasil meridional
Os grupos Jê do Sul foram por muito tempo percebidos através da ótica do 'modelo padrão', que os considerava demograficamente reduzidos, isolados e nômades. Entretanto, os recentes avanços da arqueologia no Sul do Brasil tornaram possível questionar tal modelo. Neste artigo, nosso objetivo principal é demonstrar, através do mapeamento dos sítios arqueológicos e de suas datações, que podem ser identificadas áreas de alta densidade populacional com…
Anthropogenic soil and settlement organisation in the Bolivian Amazon
Anthropogenic soils known as Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) have long been known as a key component of subsistence systems for various pre‐Columbian Amazonian populations. Often treated as a single category, ADE systems consist of two broad anthrosols (human‐modified soils): the darker ADE (traditionally known as terra preta ) and a lighter brown Amazonian Brown Earth (ABE; traditionally known as terra mulata ). Data on the characteristics and spat…
Novas perspectivas sobre a arquitetura ritual do planalto meridional brasileiro
Neste artigo apresentamos o resultado de escavações em montículos e aterros anelares Jê do Sul no município de Pinhal da Serra, RS. Fazemos uma distinção entre pequenos aterros cercando montículos funerários e grandes aterros cercando uma praça interna. Em um montículo funerário encontramos dois sepultamentos cremados, um primário e o outro secundário. Um grande aterro apresentou, em sua estratigrafia, evidências de que a terra usada em sua const…
Delayed demographic transition following the adoption of cultivated plants in the eastern La Plata Basin and Atlantic coast, South America
Understanding past population dynamics in lowland South America relative to changes in subsistence is crucial for drawing comparisons with global processes. Here, we use aggregated radiocarbon data as a palaeodemography proxy for in the eastern La Plata Basin and adjacent Atlantic coast, southeastern South America. Our results show that population dynamics in the study area are best explained by a three-phase model consisting of exponential growt…
Moieties and Mortuary Mounds
Excavations at Abreu Garcia provide a detailed case study of a mound and enclosure mortuary complex used by the southern proto-Jê in the southern Brazilian highlands. The recovery of 16 secondary cremation deposits within a single mound allows an in-depth discussion of spatial aspects of mortuary practices. A spatial division in the placement of the interments adds another level of duality to the mortuary landscape, which comprises: (1) paired mo…
Áreas de atividade em dois centros cerimoniais Jê do Sul
Neste artigo, apresento a análise das estruturas e conjuntos artefatuais de dois sítiosde aterros anelares com montículos Jê do Sul. Ambos apresentam anexos quadrangulares em sua arquitetura e grande quantidade de material lítico, diferenciando-se de outros sítios da mesma categoria
News from the field ou como um projeto internacional começa a sair do papel
O presente texto apresenta as questões centrais de pesquisa do projeto Paisagens Jê do Sul do Brasil e também traz resultados preliminares do primeiro ano de atividades de pesquisa em Arqueologia e Paleoecologia
Moiety specific wood selection in funerary ritual for the southern proto-Jê
Paisagem ritual no planalto meridional brasileiro
Nesta dissertação são analisados os sítios cerimoniais associados à ocupação Jê do Sul no município de Pinhal da Serra, RS.Os sítios são compostos por aterros anelares (muros de terra) isolados ou cercando montículos.É proposta uma classificação que leva em conta a variabilidade arquitetônica de tais sítios, conforme as dimensões dos aterros, seu formato e a presença ou ausência de montículos.São considerados também os dados de escavações que evi…
Novas perspectivas sobre a arquitetura ritual do planalto meridional brasileiro
Neste artigo apresentamos o resultado de escavações em montículos e aterros anelares Jê do Sul no município de Pinhal da Serra, RS. Fazemos uma distinção entre pequenos aterros cercando montículos funerários e grandes aterros cercando uma praça interna. Em um montículo funerário encontramos dois sepultamentos cremados, um primário e o outro secundário. Um grande aterro apresentou, em sua estratigrafia, evidências de que a terra usada em sua const…
Southern Jê earthworks and burial mounds
Neste artigo comparo diferentes sítios de aterros e montículos funerários Jê escavados em Pinhal da Serra, Rio Grande do Sul. O primeiro tipo consiste em dois pequenos aterros circulares cercando montículos com sepultamentos cremados. O segundo apresenta um grande aterro circular unido a um muro retangular e cercando três montículos. A arquitetura dos sítios, o dispêndio de energia em sua construção e as atividades realizadas nos mesmos sugerem d…
Paisagem ritual no planalto meridional brasileiro
Nesta dissertação são analisados os sítios cerimoniais associados à ocupação Jê do Sul no município de Pinhal da Serra, RS.Os sítios são compostos por aterros anelares (muros de terra) isolados ou cercando montículos.É proposta uma classificação que leva em conta a variabilidade arquitetônica de tais sítios, conforme as dimensões dos aterros, seu formato e a presença ou ausência de montículos.São considerados também os dados de escavações que evi…
Áreas de atividade em dois centros cerimoniais Jê do Sul
Neste artigo, apresento a análise das estruturas e conjuntos artefatuais de dois sítiosde aterros anelares com montículos Jê do Sul. Ambos apresentam anexos quadrangulares em sua arquitetura e grande quantidade de material lítico, diferenciando-se de outros sítios da mesma categoria
The genesis of monuments
Moiety specific wood selection in funerary ritual for the southern proto-Jê
Emergent Complexity, Changing Landscapes, and Spheres of Interaction in Southeastern South America During the Middle and Late Holocene
Newly created academic programs at Brazilian universities have provided the impetus for new archaeological projects in southeastern South America during the last two decades. The new data are changing our views on emergent social complexity, natural and human-induced transformation of the landscape, and transcontinental expansions and cultural interactions across the Río de la Plata basin during the Middle and Late Holocene. We concentrate on six…
Out of Amazonia
The late-Holocene expansion of the Tupi-Guarani languages from southern Amazonia to SE South America constitutes one of the largest expansions of any linguistic family in the world, spanning ~4000 km between latitudes 0°S and 35°S at about 2.5k cal. yr BP. However, the underlying reasons for this expansion are a matter of debate. Here, we compare continental-scale palaeoecological, palaeoclimate and archaeological datasets, to examine the role of…
News from the field ou como um projeto internacional começa a sair do papel
O presente texto apresenta as questões centrais de pesquisa do projeto Paisagens Jê do Sul do Brasil e também traz resultados preliminares do primeiro ano de atividades de pesquisa em Arqueologia e Paleoecologia
Reassessing climate and pre-Columbian drivers of paleofire activity in the Bolivian Amazon
Novas perspectivas para a cartografia arqueológica Jê no Brasil meridional
Os grupos Jê do Sul foram por muito tempo percebidos através da ótica do 'modelo padrão', que os considerava demograficamente reduzidos, isolados e nômades. Entretanto, os recentes avanços da arqueologia no Sul do Brasil tornaram possível questionar tal modelo. Neste artigo, nosso objetivo principal é demonstrar, através do mapeamento dos sítios arqueológicos e de suas datações, que podem ser identificadas áreas de alta densidade populacional com…
Moieties and Mortuary Mounds
Excavations at Abreu Garcia provide a detailed case study of a mound and enclosure mortuary complex used by the southern proto-Jê in the southern Brazilian highlands. The recovery of 16 secondary cremation deposits within a single mound allows an in-depth discussion of spatial aspects of mortuary practices. A spatial division in the placement of the interments adds another level of duality to the mortuary landscape, which comprises: (1) paired mo…
The legacy of 4,500 years of polyculture agroforestry in the eastern Amazon
Rethinking households, communities and status in the southern Brazilian highlands
Water, movement and landscape ordering
The origins of Amazonian landscapes
Geometry by Design
Recent research has shown that the entire southern rim of Amazonia was inhabited by earth-building societies involving landscape engineering, landscape domestication and likely low-density urbanism during the Late Holocene. However, the scale, timing, and intensity of human settlement in this region remain unknown due to the dearth of archaeological work and the logistical difficulties associated with research in tropical forest environments. A c…
Delayed demographic transition following the adoption of cultivated plants in the eastern La Plata Basin and Atlantic coast, South America
Understanding past population dynamics in lowland South America relative to changes in subsistence is crucial for drawing comparisons with global processes. Here, we use aggregated radiocarbon data as a palaeodemography proxy for in the eastern La Plata Basin and adjacent Atlantic coast, southeastern South America. Our results show that population dynamics in the study area are best explained by a three-phase model consisting of exponential growt…
Anthropogenic soil and settlement organisation in the Bolivian Amazon
Anthropogenic soils known as Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) have long been known as a key component of subsistence systems for various pre‐Columbian Amazonian populations. Often treated as a single category, ADE systems consist of two broad anthrosols (human‐modified soils): the darker ADE (traditionally known as terra preta ) and a lighter brown Amazonian Brown Earth (ABE; traditionally known as terra mulata ). Data on the characteristics and spat…
Refining the Chronology and Occupation Dynamics of the Mound Villages of South-Eastern Acre, Brazil
This paper summarises recent test excavations at five Mound Village sites in the south-eastern sector of Acre state, Brazil, including Caboquinho, Boa Esperança, Tocantins, Dos Circulos IV and V. Radiocarbon dates obtained from the excavation of this site refine the chronology of this archaeological tradition. To improve the chronologies of the mound villages in Acre for which radiocarbon dates were available, we modelled them using Bayesian stat…
Investigating pre-Columbian floristic legacy effects using machine learning in the southern Atlantic Forest, Brazil
The scope and scale of past human impacts on both historic and current vegetation is of widespread interest in the historical sciences. In the Atlantic Forest of southern Brazil (Portuguese: Mata Atlântica), previous work has identified Amerindian settlement and land-use as a probable driver of the extent and composition of forest cover, with time-extended legacies that remain detectable in modern floristic inventories. Previously published inves…
Assessing the Role of Plant Seasonalities on the Regional Organisation of the Tapajó Society
Human food practices involve procurement and production activities, including cleaning, planting, weeding, fertilisation, irrigation, and management, all influenced by seasonality. Plant phenology is the main seasonality index in Amazonian food production. This exploratory study reviews Tapajó archaeobotanical data to estimate how seasonal planting and harvesting affected regional organisations. The data originate from four Tapajó habitation site…
A statistical reassessment of rongorongo texts I, Gv, and T
The content of rongorongo texts I (Santiago Staff), Gv (verso of the Small Santiago Tablet), and T (Honolulu Tablet) has been debated, with hypotheses ranging from name lists and genealogies to cosmogonic chants. This study analyses glyph collocations in these texts, focusing on their relationship with sign 76. Segmentation of text I reveals that it can be divided into at least two segments, with the second segment sharing glyphs with short inscr…
Spatial analysis of Amazonian Dark Earth formation supports an anthropic origin at the Caldeirão site, Brazil
Hidden in Plain Sight
Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (22 obras) · Geography (20 obras) · Archaeology (14 obras) · Ecology (9 obras) · Indigenous Health and Education (9 obras) · Geology (8 obras) · Amazon rainforest (7 obras) · Biology (7 obras) · Holocene (5 obras) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (5 obras)