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TL dating of pottery fragments from four archaeological sites in Taquari Valley, Brazil

2012; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 167; Issue: 12 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/10420150.2012.702114

1042-0150

Nilo F. Cano, Neli Teresinha Galarce Machado, Roselı́ Fernandes Gennari, René Rojas Rocca, Casimiro S. Munita, Shigueo Watanabe,

Maritime and Coastal Archaeology

Sixty-three pottery fragments from four archaeological sites, numbered RST110, RST101, RST114 and RST114, in the Taquari Valley, vicinity of the city of Lajeado, Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil, have been dated by the thermoluminescence method. Some of them from RST110 and RST101 are as old as 1400–1200 years, whereas those from RST114 and RST107 are younger than 800 years. This result indicates that RST101 and RST110 were peopled earlier than RST114 and RST107. The recent dates found are 302, 295 and 146 years and they are possible, since the first German immigrants who arrived in this region encountered Tupi–Guarani Indians still living there. One interesting result refers to the glow curves of quartz grains RST110, RST101 and RST114 that differ from the glow curves of RST107 quartz grains.