“…In Brazil, pedoarchaeological studies of rockshelters have been performed almost exclusively in limestone or shell‐mound environments (Araújo, Feathers, Arroyo‐Kalin, & Tizuka, ; Araújo, Strauss, Feathers, Paisani, & Schrage, ; Bitencourt, ; Corrêa et al., ; Felice, ; Schmitz, Bitencourt, & Rosa, ; Silva, ; Tudela, ; Vasconcelos, Ker, Schaefer, Poirier, & Andrade, ; Villagran, Strauss, Miller, Ligouis, & Oliveira, ), with the only reference to quartzite environments being Sousa, Ker, Rodet, Schaefer, and Teixeira (). Limestone and quartzite environments differ considerably in terms of geochemistry, mineralogy, and textures, potentially leading to different dynamic transformations, including post‐occupation pedogenesis in archaeological layers.…”