UNESP/LARP-MAE/USP WebGIS: a Brazilian initiative to approach the Roman-Byzantine Period
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 2020-09-02

According to data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 86.8% of Brazilians  (nearly  208  million  people)  declare  themselves  Christian,  divided  between  64.6%  Roman Catholic and 22.2% Evangelical. This shows that in comparison with the 91.8% of Bra-zilian Catholics declared in 1970, the group declined, so that the segment denominated Pen-tecostal in forty years increased from 5.2% of the population to 22.2%. Religious mobility is a fundamental aspect of social understanding both in Late Antiquity and in the present context, precisely because of the capacity to manage cosmologies and retain power and political relations. LARP-MAE/USP WebGIS program is framed between the most basic archaeological database research documentation for visualization and contextualization of archaeological spatial data in the Eastern part of the Mediterranean. This type of data enables us to approach for instance the correlations between the spread of synagogues and churches during Late Antiquity, beyond pro-viding support data to many other queries. Therefore, bound together with FAIR data principles and Digital Humanities concepts. The main efforts are to improve thematic interests, methods,and approaches, use archaeological evidence for critical historical analysis, and develop new interdisciplinary methods and approaches.


Marcio Teixeira-Bastos, Maria Isabel D'Agostino Fleming, Vagner Carvalheiro Porto