Archaeological heritage of the Serra da Moeda, Minas Gerais: a "historical and cultural unity"

Abstract

Based in gotten results of the research carried through the project "Survey and Evaluation of the Archaeological Potential of the Mountain range of Moeda and Around", to the process of state legal protection of this urban and natural set, the work searchs to contextualize, to quantify and to characterize the existing archaeological heritage in the bulk of the Mountain range in Minas Gerais. Salient that the environment possesss occupation vestiges prehistoric and historical human being, being this dated from ends of century 17, in function of the exploration of the mineral deposits in the context of the called "Cycle of the Gold". It is marked to stand out that the settling of the different parts of the Mountain range and its around did not become in way stanches, but integrated, in way that if must consider the region in analysis as a great express unit in the connection between its parts. Such integration was product of the evidenced description-cultural process by means of the set of its archaeological vestiges.