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AMOURINS SHELLMOUND: UNCOVERING BIODIVERSITY AND CHRONOLOGY THROUGH CHARCOAL ANALYSES

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Kita D Macario Open the ORCID record for Kita D Macario [Opens in a new window] ,
Rita Scheel-Ybert ,
Natacha Ribeiro-Pinto ,
Bruna B Pereira ,
Dayanne Amaral  and
Eduardo Q Alves
Kita D Macario*
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Física, Av. Gal. Milton Tavares de Souza s/n, 24210–346 - Niterói, RJ, Brazil
Rita Scheel-Ybert
Affiliation:
Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Natacha Ribeiro-Pinto
Affiliation:
Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Bruna B Pereira
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Física, Av. Gal. Milton Tavares de Souza s/n, 24210–346 - Niterói, RJ, Brazil
Dayanne Amaral
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Física, Av. Gal. Milton Tavares de Souza s/n, 24210–346 - Niterói, RJ, Brazil Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, campus Nova Friburgo, Av. Governador Roberto Silveira, 1900, Prado - Nova Friburgo, RJ, Brazil
Eduardo Q Alves
Affiliation:
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Instituto de Física, Av. Gal. Milton Tavares de Souza s/n, 24210–346 - Niterói, RJ, Brazil Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, University of Oxford, OX1 3TGOxford, United Kingdom
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*Corresponding author. Email: kitamacario@id.uff.br.
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Abstract

In paleoenvironmental research, several proxies are used to reconstruct climate and vegetation. The establishment of a chronological framework allows for the association of different proxies and correlation of events happening in different geographic areas. Cultural deposits, such as the shellmounds found along the coast of Brazil, play an important role in paleoenvironmental interpretations. Here, we have employed anthracological analysis in charcoal fragments from the Amourins shellmound, located at the margins of the Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro. This allowed for the taxonomic identification and selection of short-lived trees and specific parts of plants for accurate radiocarbon dating. We recorded genera and families typical of the Atlantic Forest, restinga forest, open restinga and mangrove. The 14C ages of charred nuts from different occupational layers range from 3807 ± 35 to 3503 ± 70 BP and a sequential chronological model was built, relating the predominance of mangrove vegetation to the period between 4130–3960 cal BP.

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anthracologyBrazilchronologypaleoenvironment
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Radiocarbon , Volume 63 , Issue 4: Featuring: CLARa Proceedings of the 1st Latin American Radiocarbon Conference , August 2021 , pp. 1085 - 1102
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Selected Papers from the 1st Latin American Radiocarbon Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 29 Jul.–2 Aug. 2019

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