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- Title
UM MUIRAQUITÃ EM SEU CONTEXTO ARQUEOLÓGICO NO LENDÁRIO AMAZÔNICO.
- Authors
Lima da Costa, Marcondes; Kipnis, Renato; Souza da Silva, Glayce Jholy; Araújo Silva, Tallyta Suenny; Santos Rodrigues, Suyanne Flávia; Pahl Schaan, Denise
- Abstract
In an archaeological rescue carried out by the Graduate Program in Anthropology at UFPA in 2011, in the port of the city of Santarém (State of Pará, Brazil), a lithic pendant with the morphological characteristics of a muiraquitã (called here muiraquitã Santarém) was found, being therefore one of the first in the contextualized environment of the Amazon valley. While keeping in mind that these pendants are made of nephritic jade, Santarém, although lithic and greenish gray in color, was carved in chloritesericite-quartz schist, a recurrent low grade metamorphic rock. Even so, the finding is rare, due to its design and prehistoric use, in addition to representing socio-cultural objects, which in design find prehistoric parallels along the Atlantic coastal region and in the Caribbean islands.
- Subjects
BELEM (Brazil); METAMORPHIC rocks; PORT cities; GRADUATE education; ANTHROPOLOGY; ISLANDS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL finds
- Publication
Amazônica: Revista de Antropologia, 2021, Vol 13, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
1984-6215
- Publication type
Article