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Authorship
Guedes Milheira, R.
;
Caroline Borges
;
LOPONTE, DANIEL MARCELO
;
ACOSTA, A
Date
2018
Publishing House and Editing Place
dell?Università degli Studi di Ferrara
ISSN
978-88-964632-1-5
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This work discusses the remains of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) found in Brazilian pre-colonial archaeologicalcontexts. Although widely and assuredly present in different archaeological contexts, chronologiesand regions of the American continent (for review see Morey 2006, Sthal 2013), including the South Americanlowlands (Acosta and Loponte 2011), until recently, no trace of a dog had been effectively identified in Brazilianarchaeological sites dating from periods prior to the arrival of E...
This work discusses the remains of domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) found in Brazilian pre-colonial archaeologicalcontexts. Although widely and assuredly present in different archaeological contexts, chronologiesand regions of the American continent (for review see Morey 2006, Sthal 2013), including the South Americanlowlands (Acosta and Loponte 2011), until recently, no trace of a dog had been effectively identified in Brazilianarchaeological sites dating from periods prior to the arrival of European colonizers. It was believed thatdogs had been incorporated by indigenous societies only following the contact with Europeans as suggestedby the fifteenth-century chroniclers (for review see Velden 2009). Recently, the identification of teeth and bonefragments from a domestic dog from cerritos (earthen mounds) located in the area of Pontal da Barra (Pelotas,RS), southern Brazil (Milheira et al. 2016) changed this scenario, with the first evidence of domestic dogs inpre-colonial Brazil. Recently, the remaining fauna collected from the Cerrito of Pontal da Barra was the subjectof zooarchaeological analysis and other potential bone remains of dogs were found. In this paper, we present thenew material that has been found, and discuss the apparent lack of domestic dogs in Brazilian pre-colonial archaeologicalcontexts as well as ssome aspects of the social meaning of dogs in the context of the mound buildersocieties of the Pampas.
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Key Words
Earthen moundsDomestic dogs