AB Archaeologia Baltica 1392-5520 1392-5520 KU 10_099-104_LIMA_FIGUEIROA Article Indigenous astronomical traditions as related by the first ethnologists in Brazil Lima Flavia Pedroza fpedroza@rio.rj.gov.br ∗ Instituto de Geociências, UNICAMP Figueirôa Silvia F. de M. figueiroa@ige.unicamp.br Instituto de Geociências, UNICAMP Corresponding author. 10 99 104 20 12 2008 20 12 2008 01 11 2007 02 07 2008 2008 Klaipėda University

This work aims to present a panorama of the space-time of certain Brazilian native peoples, and especially the Tupi-Guarani and the Apinayé, as reported by some of the early ethnologists who traveled to Brazil, including Paul Ehrenheich, Theodor Koch-Grünberg and Curt “Nimuendajú” Unkel, as well the Canadian naturalist C. F. Hartt. This ethnohistoric data is compared to recent fieldwork.

 Ethnoastronomy Indians Brazil German ethnologist C.F. Hartu