Representation of Geossystens In Archaeology Landscape Studies: Ancient Environments In Ilhéus, Northeastern Brazil

Abstract

Ancient occupations in the geographic space go back to experiences that had singular relations with the natural attributes. In this sense, the Landscape Archaeology tries to unveil, through archaeological vestiges, the ways of life of the ancestral populations. The methodological approach that shows the natural systems and their relations with the anthropic systems is known as geosystemic theory, which assists Landscape Archaeology in the patterns of past occurrences arising from environmental configurations. The objective of research was to expose the geosystemic scenarios of Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil, that conditioned the occupations from the Brazilian pre-colonial period. Four (4) geosystems were identified that defined the form of pre-colonial groups occupying the zone, besides favoring the growth of the colony from the nineteenth century through the production of sugar cane in the local mills.