Bioarqueologia na era da tecnologia: acervos digitais como ferramenta de preservação e comunicação do patrimônio arqueológico

Abstract

he expansion of internet access through social networks, applications and digital platforms, has produced new forms of social and educational interaction in Brazil. Accompanying this process, institutions for the safekeeping and research of Brazilian cultural heritage have sought technological solutions topromote the management and sharing of their collections. Each ollection represents an important aspect of a given culture and in the case of bioarchaeological collections we have direct evidence of past population biology and their study provides information on the origin and dispersion of groups, health, activity patterns, funerary rituals, among others. This is the type of collection that makes up Sítio Barra, an important archaeological site in Cariri Paraibano, located in the municipality of Camalaú, in Paraíba, which has been studied at the Laboratory of Bioarchaeology of the Federal University of Sergipe (LABIARQ/UFS). In this sense, this research aims to analyze the osteological collection of Sítio Barra and create a digital collection for LABIARQ in order to store data from this collection and from other research carried out in the Laboratory. For this purpose, we carried out a morphological analysis of the osteological collection at Sítio Barra through the methods employed by Bioarchaeology; we documented the items that compose it based on the proposals of the Musealization of Archeology; and, through the knowledge produced by Information Technologies, we hosted the data inTainacan'srepository of digital collections. This Digital Collection will allow the LABIARQ team to register new bioarchaeological collections (including human, animal and plant remains) from different archaeological sites and store each item with its respective documentation, as well as communicate archaeological knowledge to the general public through the internet.