Mapeamento do patrimônio arqueológico do Rio Grande do Sul : um ponto, uma linha e um horizonte

Abstract

The need to create standards and systematically organize information is inherent to the so-called modern human being. There is a growing demand to create categories and seek to fit into some of them, especially in a multicultural society such as ours. This dissertation proposes to build a starting point for the systematization of information about the Archaeological Sites from the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Through a diagnosis made in PHAN-RS’s database, it was possible to carry out comparative studies and overlap information in order to visualize the state map from different perspectives. Archaeological sites are not just colorful dots on a map. They are cultural systems that extrapolate the basic understanding which would sum up its complexity. The construction of maps considering the Archaeological Traditions and relating this information with data such as responsible researcher and year of the research provides a way to see the dispersion of these Archaeological Sites in a unique way. The main purpose of this research would be, therefore, to carry out a diagnosis that would enable the identification of the information related to the accuracy of the location of the archaeological sites registered in the IPHAN-RS database. In this work, we try to explore possibilities of using several information and to relate them, always in the pursuit of expanding the archaeological knowledge.