Submitted by Setor de Tratamento da Informa??o - BC/PUCRS (tede2@pucrs.br) on 2015-07-20T12:44:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 472426 - Texto Completo.pdf: 3032660 bytes, checksum: 50964e7dc5f61d34b3525570122613a3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-07-20T12:44:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 472426 - Texto Completo.pdf: 3032660 bytes, checksum: 50964e7dc5f61d34b3525570122613a3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-07-03 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior - CAPES / The exumation of human bones in sambaquis is a known fact since the beginning of this research trend in Brazil. Regardless of it, there are few debates, and even studies, about the funerary practices of these groups. While some essential researches were written about metric and non-metric characters of the human skeleton, evidences which relate to ritual subject of the interments rarely were observed while fieldwork was conduced. This document, with these considerations in mind, explores the signs and techniques of the ritual ceremony in the sambaquis of the States of Santa Catarina and Paran?. Guided by the objective of presenting a process of development of these practices in the coastal region of such States, only sites with descriptions of the exumations and with available radiocarbonic datations were selected: the final sample resulted in thirteen sambaquis. The individuals were contabilized (212 persons) and their individual funerary traits were classified in eight variables (grave-pit, funerary offerings, ochre, extended body, flexed body, combustion traces, adornments and multiple burial) and four categories (adult, young, biological male, biological female). Appreciating the uncoiling application of these variables associated together with categories in time, it was possible to advance the existence of five models ? or patterns ? of interment practice. Also, it was recovered a special and instable relationship between child and biological female categories with the adornment, funerary offerings and ochre; which is specific for the studied region in 4951 and 2850 BP. With these results, we hope to encourage the research in a more deep exploration of mortuary rites, and, through them, take up a diferential approach for the study of the sambaqui society and culture. / O achado de ossos humanos em sambaquis ? um fato noticiado desde os prim?rdios da pesquisa no Brasil. N?o obstante, muito pouco se comenta, ou mesmo se estuda, sobre as pr?ticas funer?rias destes grupos. Enquanto pesquisas essenciais foram redigidas a respeito de caracteres ?sseos m?tricos e n?o-m?tricos do esqueleto, evid?ncias que se relacionem com as quest?es rituais dos sepultamentos raramente foram observadas pelas fontes prim?rias. Este documento, diante disto, explora estes ind?cios de ritos e t?cnicas de inuma??o nos sambaquis dos Estados do Paran? e Santa Catarina. Com o intuito de apresentar um processo de desenvolvimento destas pr?ticas no litoral, apenas s?tios com descri??es dos sepultamentos e data??es radiocarb?nicas foram selecionados; o que resultou em um total de treze sambaquis. Seus sepultamentos foram contabilizados (212 indiv?duos) e suas caracter?sticas individuais foram classificadas em oito vari?veis (cova, mob?lia funer?ria, ocre, estendido, fletido, combust?o, adorno e sepultamento m?ltiplo) e quatro categorias (adulto, crian?a, homem biol?gico, mulher biol?gica). A partir do desenrolar do uso das vari?veis junto as categorias no tempo, foi poss?vel propor a exist?ncia de cinco modelos ? ou padr?es ? de sepultamento e de rela??es especiais e inst?veis entre as categorias crian?a e mulher biol?gica com as vari?veis adorno, mob?lia funer?ria e pigmento ocre que parece espec?fico para a ?rea estudada, entre 4951 e 2850 anos antes do presente. Com isso espera-se encorajar as pesquisas no sentido de uma explora??o mais aprofundada destes ritos e, por interm?dio destes, possibilitar uma abordagem diferenciada para o estudo da sociedade e cultura dos construtores dos sambaquis.