RETALHOS HISTÓRICOS E DETALHES ARQUITETÔNICOS DA FAZENDA ÁGUA VERDE – PI

Abstract

This work aims to contribute to the reconstruction of the history of the semiarid region of  northeastern Brazil from the Agua Verde Farm, in municipality of Coronel Jose Dias - PI. There are strong  indications that the seat of this farm is an example of the vernacular architecture of the seventeenth  century, when it began to pastures in southeastern Piaui State. She went through alternating cycles of occupation and abandonment, under the ownership of several individuals. With a theoretical and  methodological framework based on oral and historiographical information we analyzed archaeological data  relating them to the landscape. We propose, therefore, still hypothetical level, that the current residential  structure of Agua Verde Farm is the same that was built by Portuguese colonists in the seventeenth century.