El passado arqueológico en Mato Grosso do Sul – Brasil: un análisis a través del Museu de Arqueología da la UFMS.

Abstract

The research entitled THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAST IN MATO GROSSO DO SUL - BRAZIL: AN ANALYSIS THROUGH DATA FROM MUARQ - MUSEUM OF ARCHEOLOGY OF UFMS, has as its central theme to identify and locate in time the prehistoric peoples that inhabited Mato Grosso do Sul - Brazil, the data being obtained, therefore, through archaeological investigations carried out by the team of the Museum of Archeology of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, MuArq - UFMS, located in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Central Brazil. Mato Grosso do Sul is located in the central region of South America, between the central plateau of the Amazon and the Chaco. This region is formed by the cerrado, the Atlantic Forest and the Pantanal, with places seasonally flooded by the Paraguay River and tributaries of its upper course. It is believed that in the past it was a great crossing point of the South American continent and today it is one of the main areas of environmental preservation in the central region of Brazil and has the second largest concentration of indigenous ethnic groups in the country, perhaps due to the large number of prehistoric peoples who were / passed / lived in this place. Thus, it will be possible to understand the human presence since 12,660 years, the oldest date (until now), until the year 1,500, with the arrival of the Europeans. The present of indigenous peoples, with their adaptations and struggles for the recovery of territories, makes clear their role in these lands and part of that is understanding how they arrived in this territory, but these peoples of today are the same descendants of prehistoric indigenous peoples. To elucidate this issue, in addition to having thirty years of archaeological information, environmental, paleoenvironmental data (the few available), cultural, material culture data, almost all of them, stored in the UFMS Museum of Archeology, were organized and analyzed. But still without being able to rely on genetic information, seeking to contribute to the interpretation of regional prehistory.