Ressource pédagogique : Analysis of Artefact Form: the application of morphometric methods to archaeology / Renata Pedroso de Araujo

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Analysis of Artefact Form: the application of morphometric methods to archaeology / Renata Pedroso de Araujo, in colloque "1st Virtual Conference for Women Archaeologists and Paleontologists. Nouveaux apports à l’étude des populations et environnements passés" organisé par le laboratoire Travaux et Recherches Archéologiques sur les Cultures, les Espaces et les Sociétés (TRACES) de l’Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès et le laboratoire Paléontologie Évolution Paléoécosystèmes (PALEVOPRIM) de l'Université de Poitiers, sous la responsabilité scientifique de Julie Bachellerie, Ana Belén Galán López (Traces), Émilie Berlioz et Margot Louail (Palevoprim). Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, 8-9 mars 2021. [Conférence enregistrée à distance]. Session 3 : Exploitation of natural resources and raw materials, subsistence strategies. This presentation will verse on the subject and methods used in my doctoral research project. I am currently developing research in Brazilian archaeology, with a project aiming to contribute to the understanding of the occupation processes of southeastern Brazil by hunter-gatherer groups during the Holocene. More specifically, this research focusses on the State of São Paulo, concentrating on the study of two classes of formal lithic artefacts, namely bifacial projectile points and unifacial, plane-convex scrapers. The scope of the research is to characterize the diversity of the southeastern Brazilian lithic industries by means of a morphometric approach, in order to explore the differences or similarities in the 2 characteristics of bifacial points and unifacial artefacts of São Paulo territory in relation to these same artefact classes found in the south (Umbu Tradition, with bifacial points) and in the midwest and part of the northeast of the country (Itaparica Tradition, with unifacial artefacts). These data will be theoretically interpreted in light of the assumptions of Cultural Transmission Theory, aiming the proposal of hypotheses related to the scenarios of regional settlement, territory delineation and cultural contact, and relating these scenarios to the population dynamics of these human groups throughout the Holocene. The endeavors for application of morphometric methods to the morphological analysis of material culture is fairly new –a little more than a decade– and it has been gaining more interest among archaeologists as an effective, quantitative and complementary approach to the more disseminated technological analyses, mainly regarding lithic artefacts. This project has not yielded research results so far, so the idea for this occasion is to present results of recent morphometric works applied to lithic studies in Brazil and to introduce the morphometric approach as a promising method of analysis in archaeological studies.

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• Histoire du Brésil (981)
• Archéologie de la préhistoire (930.11)

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