Pilgrims of the Cerrado.

Abstract

The Cerrado biogeographic system exerted, through the diversity of environment, variety of resources and possibities of subsistence, since the end of Pleistocene and the beginning of Holocene, fundamental importance in the settlement of human populations in the central areas of Brazil. The hunter-gatherers groups have established with this kind of environment a very wise relationship which gave rise to singular culture processes. Most of these processes continuate an accentuated form also in the culture of the horticultural groups and motivate the archaeologist, in a general way, to include a manifold of possibilities in his works, as well as to better understand the function of the invironment, and the organization of space, by populations endowed with simple economies.