The use of landscape archeology approach to archaeological sites surveyed in the municipalities of Bom Jesus and Pinhal da Serra, in the northeast of Rio Grande do Sul, identified five key moments in the social construction of modern cultural landscape of the southern Brazilian plateau. This article emphasizes the importance of the temporality of the landscape and highlights the differences between the landscape of the great builders of pit houses and the builders of the monumental funerary structures and points out that these cannot be automatically associated with the so-called Proto-Jê groups or the historical Southern Jê groups.
Cultural landscapes; Brazilian southern plateau; Archaeology of the landscape; Heritage landscape
