A long held view about the occupation of southern proto-Jê pit house villages of the southern Brazilian highlands is that these sites represent cycles of long-term abandonment...

Dates are reported as in the original publication, where years BP refer to the date of the analysis (2001).

Dates marked with * are outliers and were not included in the final run of the model. All dates are rounded to the nearest 5 years.

Levels marked with * correspond to the first occupation of the structures. Date Beta-178134 extends out of range of the calibration curve.