Caçadores-recolectores semi-sedentários do Mesolítico do paleoestuário do Sado ...

• Autor(es): Soares, Joaquina
• Data: 2013
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/10373
• Origem: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Assunto(s): Arqueologia; Mesolítico; Caçadores-recolectores; Paleoestuário do Sado
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo
• Idioma: Português

Descrição

A autora procede a uma revisitação da informação disponível sobre o Mesolítico do paleoestuário do Sado, no contexto da problemática da neolitização do Sul de Portugal e na procura das origens da economia agro-marítima dos concheiros neolíticos da Comporta. Abstract The Mesolithic semi-sedentary hunter-gatherers of the Sado paleoestuary (Portugal) The author presents a synthesis about the Mesolithic of the Sado paleoestuary, building a model of socioeconomic dynamics in a long-term perspective that goes as further as the origins of the agro-maritime lifestyle of Middle Neolithic of Comporta. Nevertheless, the main issue is the Sado Mesolithic discussion in a wider context of the neolithiza tion in Southern Portugal. At the time span of 5700-4500 cal BC, when the adoption of agriculture and domestic animals took place, two major lifestyles coexisted in the South of Portugal: 1) Coastal-adapted hunting-fishing-gathering societies, which developed “high” degrees of sedentism and a correlated increasing population density – ecological/demographic imbalance. This trend required an intensification of the Mesolithic broad-spectrum economy, with the earliest adoption of domestic species (5700-5500 cal BC). The new food resources have been integrated in the traditional subsistence system, achieving a typical mixed e conomy; 2) Affluent foragers groups organised in a demographic equilibrium sustained by a richer set of natural resources in the Tejo and Sado estuaries. They avoid adopting the food-production economy, and kept for about one thousand years their Mesolithic hunting-fishing-gathering economy, probably with storage. Among these groups, only the ceramic containers, from the “Neolithic package”, had been adopted (according to its vantages for storage), during the evolved early early Neolithic (transition and first half of the V millennium cal BC).