They convinced you that archaeology in Brazil is uninteresting.
Cities in the Amazon, refined ceramics, the oldest rock paintings in the Americas... all of this is part of Brazil's archaeological cultural heritage. With a historical depth of at least 12,000 years, archaeology in Brazil has unveiled the existence of societies that for centuries manipulated nature, building anthropogenic forests in a pattern of interaction with the environment that has the potential to revolutionize everything that archaeology understands as "civilization."
Even so, it is not at all uncommon to hear people reproducing various preconceptions regarding Brazilian archaeology, placing it in a position of inferiority in relation to the past and cultural heritage of other societies. This idea that everything that comes from here is inferior to what comes from abroad is nothing new and is not accidental: this is a historically constructed discourse with very clear political purposes. Let's understand what archaeology has to do with all this?
Come and discover the beauty of our cultural heritage :)
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Eduardo Góes Neves. Under the times of the Equinox: eight thousand years of history in Central Amazonia (6500 BC - 1500 AD). 2012.
Paulo Zanettini. Projecting the future for Brazilian archaeology: a challenge for all. 2009.
Jaqueline Gomes. Detours and Enchantments: another archaeology of the landscape in the Amazon. 2021.
Juliana Salles Machado. Archaeology and history in the constructions of continuity in the Amazon. 2009.
Walter Alves Neves. Brazilian archaeology: some considerations. 1989.
Pedro Paulo A. Funari. Brazilian archaeology: overview and reassessment.
Francisco Silva Noelli and Lúcio Menezes Ferreira. The persistence of the theory of indigenous degeneration and colonialism in the foundations of Brazilian archaeology. 2007.
Lucas R. Silva et al. A new hypothesis for the origin of Amazonian Dark Earth. 2021.
Chapters:
00:00 Cities in the Amazon
2:06 Brazilian inferiority complex
3:14 The revolution in Brazilian archaeology
7:51 Monumentality as a parameter
12:35 "Indigenous degeneration"
20:07 Colonialism of knowledge