Ochres from rituals of prehistoric human funerals at the Toca do Enoque site, Piauí, Brazil

Autor:	Niède Guidon, Maria de Fátima da Luz, Luis Carlos Duarte Cavalcante, José Domingos Fabris, José D. Ardisson
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Prehistory Nuclear and High Energy Physics Geography National park YELLOW OCHRE Mineralogy Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Condensed Matter Physics Animal bone Archaeology Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Rock shelter Archaeological science
Zdroj:	Hyperfine Interactions. 203:39-45
ISSN:	1572-9540 0304-3843
DOI:	10.1007/s10751-011-0346-0
Popis:	The archaeological site known as Toca do Enoque (geographical coordi- nates, 09 ◦ 14 � 65.3 �� S4 3 ◦ 55 � 62.5 �� W) is a rock shelter located in the Serra das Andorinhas (Serra das Confusoes National Park), rural area of the city of Guaribas, state of Piaui, Brazil. Several rupestrian paintings (anthropomorphic and zoomorphic motifs along with some pure graphisms), predominantly in red, are found on the sandstone walls. Charcoals, lithic materials, necklaces with teeth, animal bones, gastropod shells, ochres and human skeletons (dated from 6,220 ± 40 to 6,610 ± 40 years before present, BP) were identified in recent excavations in this shelter. Red and yellow ochre samples were collected from prehistoric funeral structures and
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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