Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas

Roosevelt, Anna; Lima da Costa, Marcondes; Lopes Machado, Christiane; Michab, M.; Mercier, Norbert; Valladas, Hélène; K. Feathers, James; K. Barnett, William; Imazio da Silveira, Maura; Henderson, Andrew; Sliva, J.; Chernoff, Barry; S. Reese, David; A. Holman, J.; Toth, Nicholas; Schick, Kathy

doi:10.1126/science.272.5260.373

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Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas

Published in Science • Apr 19, 1996

Authors:

Anna Roosevelt

Marcondes Lima da Costa

Christiane Lopes Machado

Abstract

A Paleoindian campsite has been uncovered in stratified prehistoric deposits in Caverna da Pedra Pintada at Monte Alegre in the Brazilian Amazon. Fifty-six radiocarbon dates on carbonized plant remains and 13 luminescence dates on lithics and sediment indicate a late Pleistocene age contemporary wit...

Subject

Cave

Amazon rainforest

Archaeology

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