Investigating a Rock Art Site in Paraná State, South of Brazil

Abstract

Jaguariaíva 1 is a sandstone rockshelter located in Jaguariaíva, Paraná State, Brazil, with rock art on the surface of the walls and ceiling. A stratigraphic analysis of the soil within the shelter showed six occupational layers and a superficial disturbed layer with evidence from the end of the 19th century. The establishment of a rock-art chronology became possible using fallen painted rock sections incorporated into three sedimentary levels underlying this rock shelter. These show superimpositions of several pictures of differently sized animals, such as deer, and lattice motifs, which are generally associated with the Planalto rock art tradition. The chronological study was performed based on radiocarbon (14C) analysis of charcoal collected from six excavated subsurface archaeological contexts. The two oldest layers, associated with hunters and gatherers of the Umbu tradition, were dated to 7680–7516 cal BP and 6913–6656 cal BP. There are four occupational layers from ceramists and farmers related to the south Jê linguistic family, and linked to the Itararé-Taquara archaeological tradition: layer 3 linked to the oldest of such occupation, dated to 3058–2796 cal BP, followed by layer 4, dated to 2080–1701 cal BP. Layers 5 and 6, dated to 1995–1526 cal BP and 540–152 cal BP, respectively.

Dating of Charcoal Samples from the Polutepe Archeological Site in Azerbaijan

“…Tufan I. Akhundov 1 , Sahib G. Mammadov 2,* , Aybeniz A. Ahadova 3 , Afig N. Abdullayev 4 1Institue of Archaeology and Ethnography, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Baku, Azerbaijan 2 Institute of Radiation Problems, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Baku, Azerbaijan 3 Institute of Radiation Problems, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Baku, Azerbaijan Institue of Archaeology and Ethnography, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Baku, Azerbaijan…”

“…Radiocarbon dating became as a wide spread conventional method for the dating of archaeological artifacts since it has been first applied by Libby in 1949. Application of this method enabled dating of human remains, bone ornaments and worked bone [1], establishing a chronology of Prehispanic ritual activities performed in the Nevado de Toluca [2], dating of rock art site in Parana State, South Brazil [3]and many more. The presented work is a first attempt to increase the accuracy of dating real archeological monuments, namely, Polutepe archeological site in Jalilabad district of Azerbaijan by the newly established radiocarbon dating group.…”

Paint and Coloring Materials from the Brazilian Amazon Forest: Beyond Urucum and Jenipapo

“…Investigations of rupestrian paintings or painted rock art can be found [5,6], but the most common material studied is ceramic. Those studies focused on ceramics produced by people from the North and Northeast (States of Pará, Maranhão, Amazonas, and Rondônia) [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15], South (States of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina, and Paraná) [16][17][18][19][20][21][22], Southeast (States of São Paulo and Minas Gerais) [23][24][25][26], and Midwest of Brazil (Pantanal region) [27]. Some studies on organic materials exist and focus on resins [28,29], feathers [30,31], and woods [32].…”