“…Scholars have resorted to archaeology's materializing skills to build material memories of concealed events as well as its analytical tools to reveal material discourses silently normalizing social relations (Salerno and Zarankin, 2012;Baretta, 2014;Poloni, 2014;Thiesen, et al, 2014;Silva and Martins, 2014;Souza, 2015;Anjos, 2015;Lemos, 2016;Fermín and Costa, 2018;Baretta, 2020). The focus of such studies in Brazil has been the urban contexts of capitals, often approached by spatial perspectives which mainly target architecture and enclosed spaces (Zarankin and Niro, 2010;Baretta, 2015) with less focus on the landscape (Baretta, 2017).…”