Um mergulho no tempo: um olhar arqueológico do Sítio da Terra Preta

Abstract

In this paper I present the results obtained during a field visit, in the area known as Terra Preta Archaeological Site located in the municipality of Manacapuru, State of Amazonas. Where the data presented demonstrate the archaeological potential of the Terra Preta site, identified in areas where archeological materials are distributed in known points of Ponta do Vento, José Seffair State School and Ponta das Onças. From these contexts were found on Ponta do Vento surface overlapping vestiges characterized by archaeological artifacts and TPI associated with a feature. It is a landscape area where there are many fruit trees, this one located at the edge of a ravine the banks of the river Solimões, at the end of Rua Carolina Fernandes, residence of Mrs. Lucileide Rolim. At the state school José Seffair was observed ceramic artifacts and spots of black earth the place is located in Carolina Fernandes street near Ponta do Vento. That is, in the vicinity of Rua Pedro Moura. And in the Ponta das Onças was found archaeological materials, TPI and indicative of a secondary landscape that are fruit plants that are known of bacaba, açaí, palm tree, tucumã, hose, buriti, banana tree and etc. In the area that gives access to the site is a branch of piçarra that is very compacted, because of the transportation of wood that was used by the trucks during the operation of the sawmill that had its doors closed more than 30 years ago. Its location is at the end of Rua Pedro Moura, also located on the edge of a ravine on the left bank of the river Solimões, near the river Manacapuru, and the port of Embarkation and Loading of the Terra Preta neighborhood. In the place of the researched areas it was not possible to see the extension of the site because the tradition was not done because it is only a search for characterization of the site. That is, only the site was delimited. Therefore the topic discussed shows that this archeological site of black Indian land is connected to indigenous villages that were possibly areas of occupation of the first inhabitants of the black land neighborhood. A cultural heritage where traces of archaeological remains visible until the present day.