Uma tranformação antropogênica: caracterizando o Sítio arqueológico Reserva Duque I Manaus – AM

Abstract

The Amazon region has an very large territory, composed of lands, forests and rivers, it is a perfect habitat for human development, thus it has a crucial role for the region settlement. Throughout the Amazon Region we see a landscape modified by anthropic actions, as reclaimed floristic types and soils that have been changed along the anthropization, some of those transformations from colour to chemical compositions. To understand the role of that shaping process play in the archaeological composing in a site, it is crucial for a more accurate interpretation of the data collected in it. To better understand the process of anthropic occupation and its expansion, it is necessary to conduct researches in these areas, thus collecting and / or consolidating information of this region. Our research object is located in an area of interflow between the rivers “Negro” and “Solimões” located in the East Zone of Manaus, to characterizing it, is really important because in that way we will better understand its formation and the transformation that it has occured during the course of years, transformation that comes from the human occupation process. This research is comes within a discussion of whether or not there is an archaeological site, impacted or not, and how a disturbed site differs from an intact one, and what kind of information we can get by comparing those. With this work we intend to answer such questions and fill in possible gaps regarding archaeological research in black earth sites in urban areas. We know that every day archeological research is growing in the Amazon region and we as researchers intend to contribute with the scientific community with data and information on this subject that fascinates archaeologists from many parts of Brazil and the World.