"CAVERNAS DA BABILÔNIA" NARRATIVAS E INTERVENÇÕES: VESTÍGIOS FUNERÁRIOS PRÉ - COLONIAIS NA MICRORREGIÃO DE JUIZ DE FORA

Abstract

In the nineteenth century an important archaeological site was found in the "Serra da Babilonia",  city of Goiana, Minas Gerais, containing many naturally mummified bodies and many burial accompaniments  on a rocky cavity since then called "caverna da Babilonia". Reports of important researchers of the period  have been produced about this finding, as well as quotes for more than a century, having also the site gone  through modern archaeological interventions and analyzes in the 1980s. This article is meant to gather and  make public some documents about this site, and thus highlight its importance in the current context of  regional archaeological research.