Análise da paisagem no conjunto de sítios do Núcleo “A”: Serranópolis, Goiás

Abstract

The Serranópolis’s archaeological complex, located in the southern region of Goiás, state of Brazil, is a vital knowledge source regarding the occupation process by ancient people who lived in the country’s middle. There is a lot of human evidence back to 12,000 years B.P. Because of that, several studies have been performed since the 1970s by Schmitz et al. (1989), and new projects are still in development in the region, such as Rubin (2017), which shows that the possibilities for studying are far from exhausted. Therefore, the objective of this study aims to be a possibility of Landscape Archaeology studies in the region of the Nucleus “A”, composed of four archaeological sites surrounded by essential sources of resources like rocks, vegetation, and food. The objective is to raise hypotheses about how visual analysis impacted the places of pre-colonial groups’ residences that settled in the area covered by Nucleus “A”. The visibility from the shelters, the intervisibility among them and the surrounded region, and visibilization strategies used by the groups are the reading result of their work and a possible interpretation of the cultural acts of those groups.