LANDSCAPE UNITS CORRELATED TO THE OCCURRENCE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN THE RIACHO DO TALHADO HYDROGRAPHIC BASIN, STATE OF ALAGOAS, AS SUBSIDY TO CULTURAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT
Landscape Units; Modeling; Archeology.
The distribution of archaeological resources in space is not random, on the contrary, it presents different distribution patterns that are directly linked to the relations of ancient man with environmental elements in space. Assuming that man performed different types of interactions with the environment, both in terms of survival and also in its cultural sense, it is possible to determine trends for preferred settlement sites in the landscape. The present work intends to elaborate a model of archaeological occupations by landscape units for the Riacho do Talhado Hydrographic Basin, which will be done through the modeling of environmental data in semi-detail scale that will be correlated to the data of georeferenced archaeological sites and classified by types of occupation and by their respective chronologies. The present proposal will be executed through steps that go through a vast literature review until the use of geoprocessing techniques. Vector and raster data will be used to build the geomorphological mapping, to build the model of pedological sets, to map the vegetation cover and to model the Landscape Units. From the elaboration of these data, it will be possible to make associations between the Landscape Units of the Riacho do Talhado Hydrographic Basin and the georeferenced archaeological data of IPHAN-AL, thus generating a model that will serve as a reference for asset management in the area that covers the study.