A cerâmica Jê Meridional: mudanças e permanências do fazer cerâmico do sítio Bonin, Urubici, Santa Catarina

Abstract

This work aims to expand the analyzes and discussions on Meridional Jê ceramics, problematizing it from inquiries about possible changes and sociotechnical permanence in ceramic production from two occupational horizons, dated at 650 years and 350 years BP. The research focuses on the Bonin site (Urubici, Santa Catarina), where 30 semi-underground structures were identified, divided into two spatially opposed clusters, one to the northwest and the other to the southwest of the site. The ceramic collection studied here, exhumed in archaeological interventions carried out in 2011, 2016 and 2017 corresponds to about 2400 fragments. The discussions about the collection was based on a quantitative and qualitative study. For that, a sample of 750 fragments was selected. The qualitative analysis resulted in the identification and analysis of 78 ceramic pots from the Bonin site. The comparative analysis between the two occupational horizons showed a permanence in the pulp recipe and changes with the increase in the quantity and variety of forms for the most recent horizon. This last aspect reinforces arguments of population increase in the Bonin site, which could be the result of the advance of colonial fronts that would already be on the coast pushing indigenous people to the interior of the state, placing the Bonin site as a place of resistance in history of these populations. The interpretations and hypotheses raised here from ethnographic and archaeological data are contributions to the long-term history of the Southern Jê societies.