Rituais funerários e deposição cerâmica nos sítios AM 41 e la Pointe de Balaté: Repensando o período cerâmico tardio na planície costeira oeste da Guiana Francesa

Abstract

For over 20 years the Late Ceramic Age (AD 900-1500) of the Western Coastal Plain of French Guiana and Eastern Suriname has been considered as dominated by the Barbakoeba ceramic complex as defined by the Dutch archaeologist Arie Boomert (1993). Recently, however, various excavations permit to emphasize numerous regional differences based on ceramic analysis and funerary depositions. This paper tries to go beyond general ceramic characteristics of the Barbakoeba ceramic complex in order to acknowledge regional diversity within this widely distributed complex.