• Main Author: Márica B Guimarães
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2013-01-01
• Series: Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
• Subjects: meios de subsistência; estratégia de pesca; sambaqui; Holoceno; subsistence resources; fishing strategies; shellmound; Holocene
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652013000100415
• ISSN: 0001-3765; 1678-2690

Two distinct fishing technologies were identified among the shellmound builders of the Saquarema Lagoonal Complex, in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro: bone point technology and worked fish spines. These technologies were related to the acquisition of specific fish resources; Worked fish spines were used in the capture of Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest), and bone points used for fishing specimens of the Ariidae family. Worked spines technology was predominant between 6,726 cal. years BP and 3,699 cal. years BP, while the bone point technology was dominant after 3,699 cal. years BP. It is believed these different strategies for obtaining fishing resources before 3,699 years cal. BP was related to environmental. Notably the gradual regression of relative sea level occurred during the mid- and late Holocene.<br>Duas tecnologias pesqueiras distinas foram identificadas junto aos grupos construtores de sambaquis do Complexo Lagunar de Saquarema, no estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil: a tecnologia das pontas &#243;sseas e a dos espinhos de peixe trabalhados. Essas tecnologias estavam relacionadas &#224; aquisi&#231;&#227;o de recursos ictiol&#243;gicos espec&#237;ficos; os espinhos de peixe trabalhados foram usados na captura do Micropogonias furnieri (Desmarest) e as pontas &#243;sseas foram usadas na pesca de representantes da fam&#237;lia Ariidae. A tecnologia dos espinhos trabalhados foi predominante entre 6.726 anos cal AP e 3.699 anos cal AP, enquanto que a tecnologia de pontas &#243;sseas foi predominante ap&#243;s 3.699 anos cal AP. Acreditamos que essas diferen&#231;as estrat&#233;gicas para obter recursos aqu&#225;ticos antes de 3.699 anos cal AP estejam relacionadas a fatores de ordem ambiental, notadamente &#224; gradual regress&#227;o do n&#237;vel relativo do mar ocorrido ao longo do Holoceno m&#233;dio e tardio.