Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1
Period Classical·Regional culture Americas-Mound·🇧🇷 Brazil Region 1, Brazil
About
About Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1
Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1 in Brazil Region 1, Brazil is a Iron Age earthwork with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
Why it mattersKey Regional culture Americas-Mound earthwork with stratified sequence and regional typology.
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Construction labor organization
- 02Collapse cause
Theories
- 01Ceremonial centre
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- c. 1500 BCE
- Period
- Period Classical
- Culture
- Regional culture Americas-Mound
- Purpose
- earthwork ritual/settlement purpose for Americas-Mound
- Rediscovered
- Modern excavation 1879
- Excavation
- Excavation ongoing
c. 1500 BCE
Initial construction / first occupation at Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1
c. 200 CE major extension
Major expansion / refurbishment at Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1
1890 excavation
Modern rediscovery and scientific excavation of Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1
On the ground
Structures & features
28.1494° N · 95.0271° E · 854 m · 3 mapped features
Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1 — Principal Rampart
rampartrampart at Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1 — hydraulic feature
28.1499° N · 95.0263° EHillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1 — Ditch Annex 2
ditchditch at Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1 — primary structure
28.1493° N · 95.0279° EHillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1 — Southern Entrance
entranceentrance at Hillfort Rampart Americas 37 — Brazil Region 1 — subsidiary complex
28.1506° N · 95.0257° E