Lagoa Santa Revisited

An Overview of the Chronology, Subsistence, and Material Culture of Paleoindian Sites in Eastern Central Brazil

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4374151
AutoresAstolfo Gomes De Mello Araujo (0000-0002-0349-1226, Universidade de São Paulo, autor correspondente), W Neves (0000-0001-9124-3937, Universidade de São Paulo), Walter A Neves, Renato Kipnis (0000-0003-2183-7566, Elabora Consultoria (Brazil))
Ano2012
Volume23
Fascículo4
Páginas533-550
Data de publicação2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLatin American Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1045-6635 • E-ISSN: 2325-5080
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.7183/1045-6635.23.4.533
OpenAlexW2073290334
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas33
Referências citadas40

Lagoa Santa, a karstic area in eastern Central Brazil, has been subject to research on human paleontology and archaeology for 175 years. Almost 300 Paleoindian human skeletons have been found since Danish naturalist Peter Lund's pioneering work. Even so, some critical issues such as the role of rockshelters in settlement systems, and the possible paleoclimatic implications of the peopling of the region have yet to be addressed. We present some results obtained from recent excavations at four rockshelters and two open-air sites, new dates for human Paleoindian skeletons, and a model to explain the cultural patterns observed so far. It is also argued that the Paleoindian subsistence system at Lagoa Santa was similar to other locations in South America: generalized small-game hunting complemented by fruits, seed, and root gathering

Archaeology · Chronology · Danish · Excavation · Geography · Human settlement · Settlement (finance · Subsistence agriculture · Taphonomy · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology