Prehistoric ceramic societies from the Central-Western Brazil

Abstract

This article discusses the Central-West Brazil as a confluence area for population and/or cultural information movements from surrounding cultural areas. These movements seem to have had a great influence in the very formation of the Central-West agricultural societies, as well as in their historical evolution. This work has been performed not only through systematic review of the bibliographic information, but also involved careful re-evaluation, by means of multivariate statistical methods, of data and collections from 47 outstanding ceramic sites from that area.

Keywords

• Ceramic societies - Central-West Brazil - Migration - Cultural relations.