Os Concheiros e o padrão de povoamento das primeiras comunidades de agricultores e pastores na Estação arqueologica de Xai-Xai, na província de Gaza

Abstract

The background of this monograph is the impact of shellfish on the livelihoods of the livelihood of the First Communities of Farmers and Pastoralists in the Xai-Xai Station in the 1st millennium AD. Despite the knowledge of such stations, little is known about their the relationship they had with the farming communities that occupied them during the 1st millennium AD. millennium AD. In this sense, the study has allowed for the deepening of knowledge about the investigations, specifically in what concerns the reconstitution of archaeological materials in the area of molluscs and their influence on the subsistence of these communities. communities. Different types of shells have been identified in the Xai-Xai site, but only four have been classified in this in this work, only four of them, namely the Strombus granulatus. This shell species is approximately 5-9 cm in length. Species Murex brandaris L. is a substrate species with an elongated body cover. elongated. Monodonta lineata da costa a species that has a rough shell, whose columella is on the underside and Scrobicularia plana is a species of the bivalve class, with an oval shell, thin concentric striations and growths, without three cardinal teeth being thick and bleached in colour. Outside the shell evidence, as belonging to this Xai-Xai station, artefacts from the Stone Age were also Stone Age and Iron Age artefacts were also identified, namely, ceramics beads and organic material that allow the distinction of different phases of occupation of the different phases of occupation of the site. The earliest communities using iron in a considerable area of eastern and southern Africa show a very remarkable degree of homogeneity, to the extent that archaeologists generally attribute them to a single complex called Chifumbaze (TRADUÇAO NOSSA)