Considerations of the sambaquis of the Brazilian coast

Maria Dulce Gaspar

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Maritime and Coastal Archaeology Archaeology and ancient environmental studies Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory

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Sambaqui is the name given to a certain type of archaeological evidence left by fisher/hunter/gatherer groups who inhabited large expanses of the Brazilian coast. The word is of Tupi etymology, tamba meaning shellfish and ki a piling-up (Prous 1991: 204). The Tupi were a horticultural/potter group who lived on the Brazilian coast at the time of the first European arrivals; they coined the term which describes the main characteristic of the sites — the accumulation of great quantities of mollusc shells (FIGURE 1) .

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