Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil)

Strauss, André; Oliveira, Rodrigo Elias; Villagrán, Ximena; Bernardo, Danilo Vicensotto; Salazar‐García, Domingo C.; Bissaro, Marcos César; Pugliese, Francisco; Hermenegildo, Tiago; Santos, Rafael de Oliveira dos; Barioni, Alberto; Oliveira, Emiliano Castro de; Sousa, João Carlos Moreno de; Jaouen, Klervia; Ernani, Max; Hübbe, Mark; Inglez, Mariana; Gratão, Marina; Rockwell, Heather; Machado, Márcia; Souza, Gustavo Henrique Silva de; Chemale, Farid; Kawashita, Koji; O’Connell, Tamsin C.; Israde, Isabel; Feathers, James K.; Campi, Claudio; Richards, Michael P.; Wahl, Joachim; Kipnis, Renato; Araujo, Astolfo; Neves, Walter Alves

doi:10.15184/aqy.2016.220

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“…Lapa do Santo is an archaeological site located in the northern part of the Lagoa Santa (19.48°S; 44.04°W) karst in east-central Brazil ( Strauss et al., 2016 , Villagran et al., 2017 ). Lagoa Santa is well known since the 19th century and is unique in presenting abundant, well-preserved, directly dated, early Holocene human skeletons.…”

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Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America

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SummaryWe report genome-wide ancient DNA from 49 individuals forming four parallel time transects in Belize, Brazil, the Central Andes, and the Southern Cone, each dating to at least ∼9,000 years ago. The common ancestral population radiated rapidly from just one of the two early branches that contributed to Native Americans today. We document two previously unappreciated streams of gene flow between North and South America. One affected the Central Andes by ∼4,200 years ago, while the other explains an affinity between the oldest North American genome associated with the Clovis culture and the oldest Central and South Americans from Chile, Brazil, and Belize. However, this was not the primary source for later South Americans, as the other ancient individuals derive from lineages without specific affinity to the Clovis-associated genome, suggesting a population replacement that began at least 9,000 years ago and was followed by substantial population continuity in multiple regions.

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Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America

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Lazaridis

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“…And the results surprised them. Instead of the expected flexed burials in primary condition, the researchers found a diversity of interments, including multiple burials, anatomical selection, cut, cremated, and broken bones . In fact, the primary flexed burials were exceptions at the sites excavated.…”

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Lagoa Santa's contribution to the origins and life of early Americans

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Neves

2018

Evolutionary Anthropology

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The region of Lagoa Santa, Central-Eastern Brazil, provides an exceptional archeological record about Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene occupation of the Americas. Since the first interventions made by the Danish naturalist Peter Lund in the 19th century, hundreds of human skeletons have been exhumed in the region. These skeletons are complemented by a rich botanic, faunal, technological, and geomorphological archeological record. We explore here the contributions of Lagoa Santa material to the origins and lifestyle of early Americans, providing an historic background. Cranial morphology of Lagoa Santa skeletons allowed the proposition of a model of two biological components for the occupation of the Americas, in which early Americans are morphologically similar to people of African and Australo-Melanesian origin. Furthermore, the archeological record in the region has revealed an intense use of plant resources, a restricted spatial distribution, and the symbolic elaboration of local hunter-gatherers, unveiling a distinct lifestyle compared to early North American populations.

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“…Inúmeras datações radiocarbônicas foram feitas a partir de carvões e ossos humanos, resultando em datas entre 10.490 ± 50 aP e 790 ± 40 aP (Tabela Suplementar 3; Araujo et al 2012; Strauss et al 2016). Muito foi produzido sobre o sítio, incluindo análises sobre os processos de formação (Villagran et al 2017), estudos sobre a indústria lítica (Araujo et al 2017; Bueno 2012; Moreno de Sousa e Araujo 2018; Pugliese 2007), indústria óssea (Santos 2011), padrões de sepultamento (Strauss et al 2016), biodistância (Neves et al 2014; Nunes 2010; Posth et al 2018) e remanescentes arqueofaunísticos (Bissaro 2008; Mingatos 2017; Mingatos e Okumura 2016; Perez 2009). A partir dos estudos zooarqueológicos, foi possível observar uma permanência dos hábitos alimentares ao longo do Holoceno (Araujo et al 2017) e, principalmente, o consumo majoritário de cervídeos, especialmente os do gênero Mazama , por essa população (Mingatos 2017; Perez 2009).…”

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Cervídeos como fonte de matéria-prima para produção de artefatos: Estudos de caso em três sítios arqueológicos associados a grupos caçadores-coletores do sudeste e sul do Brasil

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2020

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Dentre as inúmeras informações possíveis de se obter a partir da análise de artefatos ósseos, uma delas é a identificação das espécies e partes anatômicas utilizadas para a confecção desses artefatos. No território brasileiro, quatro espécies de cervídeos são comumente encontradas nas regiões sul e sudeste: Mazama americana, Mazama gouazoubira, Ozotoceros bezoarticus e Blastocerus dichotomus. Ao longo do Holoceno, ossos e galhadas dessas espécies de cervídeos foram utilizados no lascamento lítico, na produção de pontas ósseas e espátulas, entre outros artefatos. Estudos preliminares dos artefatos ósseos recuperados de três sítios arqueológicos de grupos caçadores-coletores do sudeste e sul do Brasil - sítio Lapa do Santo (MG), sítio Tunas (PR), e sítio Garivaldino (RS) - demonstram uma preferência por ossos de cervídeos para a confecção desses artefatos.

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Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil)

Abstract: Early Archaic human skeletal remains found in a burial context in Lapa do

Cited by 35 publications

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Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America

Reconstructing the Deep Population History of Central and South America

Lagoa Santa's contribution to the origins and life of early Americans

Cervídeos como fonte de matéria-prima para produção de artefatos: Estudos de caso em três sítios arqueológicos associados a grupos caçadores-coletores do sudeste e sul do Brasil

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