Unveiling Regional Archaeological Heritage, Historical Archaeology at Vale do Ribeira: The Case of Sobrado dos Toledos,
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Unveiling Regional Archaeological Heritage, Historical Archaeology at Vale do Ribeira: The Case of Sobrado dos Toledos, Iguape-São Paulo Juliana Figueira da Hora 1 & Vagner Carvalheiro Porto 1 Wagner Magalhães 1 & Elaine Alencastro 1
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Abstract This paper is about the palimpsest of the colonial heritage of Iguape-São Paulo, Brazil. Our objective is to illustrate the various occupations present at Sobrado dos Toledos, a historic building in the Brazilian context, and a neoclassical symbol of an important colonial context. We also highlight the importance of this monumental architectural structure as a landmark of a social reality in space. We present the social agents that lived in the city of Iguape and that made and are part of the stories recovered in this context. We also restore and exalt the diverse memories lived there, reconstructing and redoing a biography of the place through historical archeology. Keywords Brazil . Sobrado dos Toledos . Iguape, São Paulo . Vale do Ribeira
Introduction In this paper, we examine archaeological remains found on the first archaeological seasons conducted in Sobrado dos Toledos in the city of Iguape, São Paulo, Brazil. This city has been occupied by a sequence of cultures that can be identified in the material culture exhumed in the sobrado (i.e., a palimpsest of occupations) with objects mostly * Juliana Figueira da Hora [email protected] Vagner Carvalheiro Porto [email protected] Wagner Magalhães [email protected] Elaine Alencastro [email protected]
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Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
International Journal of Historical Archaeology
associated with the local elite. Let us not forget that "palimpsest" is any surface on which the foregoing content is still tenuously visible. The word, of Greek origin, means, "what is scraped to write again" (Prado and Taam 2017: 44-45). It is also important to highlight that there is no sense of belonging or identification of the social agents that live today on the margins of the city of Iguape (Indigenous, quilombolas, descendants of the families that once lived in the townhouses, rural workers, caboclos, family farmers, caiçaras of the city, among other groups belonging to that context) with this heritage of Iguape. In this way, we reflect on the appreciation of material heritage as a space of memory and social insertion. The work presented here is part of the Archaeological Rescue and Monitoring Project for the Restoration of Sobrado dos Toledos in Iguape-SP, intended for the restoration of the infrastructure and conservation of significant spaces for the history and architecture of the city. The research is being carried out with funds from the Programa de Aceleração do Crescimento (PAC) for historical cities, a program of the Brazilian Federal Government, with execution of the Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional - IPHAN (National Institute of the Historical and Artistic Heritage).
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