Sacred landscapes of the southern Brazilian highlands: Understanding southern proto-Jê mound and enclosure complexes

摘要: Abstract Fieldwork involving survey, detailed topographic mapping, and excavations in Pinhal da Serra, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, has revealed a highly-structured landscape revolving around funerary/ceremonial structures that began A.D. 1000. This paper focuses on the results of survey mound enclosure complexes their interpretation light southern Je ethnohistorical ethnographic data. We compare architectural patterns mortuary architecture from this study with fundamental spatial features historic Kaingang’s social organisation, rituals cosmogony myth. Our suggest historical continuity organisation space cardinal directions (E–W), topography (low high places), circular/concentric spatiality proto-Je complexes. It is argued small paired are associated material representation dual ranked opposition materialised moiety cemeteries where important persona were buried.