O sítio da Figueira/Areal (RS) e seu mapa discursivo : cerâmica arqueológica e representações maestras de matriz acadêmica e colonial

Abstract

The purpose is to demonstrate the emerging need to resume archaeological research on the historicity of the established ceramic traditions for the platinum region, already suggested by Jorge Femenías (1990), which was inhabited by indigenous groups in the past. In order that the data contained in these publications can show us the conceptual path used in the textual engineering of the discourses and the argumentative chain about the archaeological site of Figueira/Areal (Quaraí), with the intention of contributing to the understanding of the discursive map built on the researched areas. From the isolation of key concepts one can understand the imbricated framework of statements that make the region and the debate fragile archaeologically. This work will prioritize the notion of representation, be it social or collective, in view of the different issues that permeate the topic addressed, sometimes social representations concerning the struggles of representation between archaeologists and historians, sometimes between collective representation, which falls on the object of the struggles of social representation, the pottery itself, this materialization that is a category of knowledge in historical and archaeological research, coming from human groups of the precolonial period. One of the objectives consisting of to present some discursive constructions of the platinum region and how they interfere in the interpretation of artifacts, in the present, and in the understanding of the archaeological sites. We will take into account the negotiations carried out between the subjects who built the founding discourse concerning the ceramics of the Areal/Quaraí-RS site and the stipulation of the Vieira archaeological tradition for this site as a case study, that which aims to reconstruct the discursive map of the pioneer archaeologists through a geography of thought, which also gains support through History and its sources of research.