| Summary: | The archaeological research on Guarulhos (SP) presented in this book allows a comparative approach to the discussion of the relationship between the written document and material culture. Applies to the knowledge of the past, the methodological-theoretical and conceptual debate about Colonial Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology and Archaeology of Movement, and the understanding of the way society understands the material culture as heritage and what are the attitudes of civil society and governmental teams for the management and protection of the remnants from the past. The contribution of the research works from the breadth of topics covered: colonization, geography and spatiality, migrations, indigenous slave labour and, finally, mobility and motion of people, objects, ideas and patrimonial identity. When discussing landscape, urbanization, buildings and material culture, the texts of the book provide a singular vision of the European settlement in the New World, connecting local indigenous cultures with the 16th century European mercantilism. This process carried out by the two worlds resulted in modifying the nature of the production space, and mark the modern urban development of Guarulhos. Archaeologist Cláudia Regina Plens Bacharel, is a history professor of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp) and salso the coordinator of the Projeto de Inventário e Pesquisa Arqueológica de Guarulhos -PIPAG Inventory and Archaeological Research Project in Guarulhos)
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