Preliminary thoughts on paleoepidemiology of violence in coastal ceramic groups: (I) Praia da Tapera Site – SC

Abstract

It was analyzed the violent trauma in the skeletal sample from Praia da Tapera site (SC), composed by 71 adult males and females. Arrow wounds and skull, face and parry fractures were the violent lesions considered here. Only the individuals associated to the second moment of occupation of the site presented trauma, and the men were most affected than women (17.2% and 3.8% respectively). The preliminary interpretations for the occurrence of the conflicts are related to ideological elements and subsistence pattern in a general perspective. A more particular reflection for the site related the conflicts to it strategic location, or to the attempt of women abduction.