Caminhos e Lugares: modelo de mobilidade e sistema de assentamento entre os proto-Jê meridionais na região de Campo Belo do Sul, SC

Abstract

Throughout this research, I sought to demonstrate the Southern Proto-Jê occupation process in the Campo Belo do Sul region, and how the regional settlement system could be thought of and structured in relation to landscape mobility. By articulating the information it was possible to demonstrate patterns of behavior in relation to different spaces, and how the regional occupation was extended guided by the standards of accessibility and visibility of the settlements, in a cultural landscape. Thus, by relating places, material culture and mobility, through the notion of social construction and use of space, I crossed this complex cultural landscape into four layers: environment, through observation, reconstruction and comparison of environmental characteristics to cultural standards; system, thinking about the dynamics of occupation and use of different spaces; power, relating the patterns of mobility to the political and economic control of the territory, as well as the reaffirmation of socio-cultural identities; and experience, in the form of integrating cognitive aspects into the notion of spatiality, territoriality and transitability. I point out that these relationships are multiple, and are intrinsically connected in the process of occupying 600 years of the region.