Archaeological, historical and heritage traces of a multiple landscape: inhabited lands in Joinville, SC, Brazil

Resumo

Joinville, by Babitonga Bay in the Atlantic Forest region, in the north of the state of Santa Catarina, was settled by people of German descent. In the 19th century, it was named Colonia Dona Francisca. Before the settlement was founded, people of Portuguese and African descent already lived in the region. When the German immigrants arrived, indigenous Tupi-Guarani and Jê peoples lived in the surrounding areas. The Umbu peoples had lived in this same landscape more than 8,000 years before the present time. This is evidenced by over 40 archaeological sites in the surroundings and within the city. This said, the cultural and natural heritage of Joinville derived from these different times and interventions in space allows us to reflect on the processes of construction of the landscape as a space that is lived and inhabited in the world by different social groups. The proposed study aims to problematize this landscapeof Colonia Dona Francisca, now called Joinville, together with the daily practices of the population that formerly lived there. The study will be performed with a design based on cartography, working from documental and archaeological sources, maps and photographs to read the local landscape.