Prehistoric Maritime Domain and Brazilian Shellmounds
Open Access
- 1 January 2014
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. in Archaeological Discovery
- Vol. 02 (01), 1-5
- https://doi.org/10.4236/ad.2014.21001
Abstract
For at least six thousand years, the Brazilian coast has been explored extensively by different fishing communities. This article deals with the fishing-gatherer societies as coastal communities proposing an interface between shell sites archaeology and maritime anthropology.Keywords
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