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Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 06 September 2017  Page Views: 3096

Rock ArtSite Name: Santa Elena (Brazil)
Country: Brazil Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Cuiba
Latitude: 15.333S  Longitude: 56.95W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Santa Elena (Brazil)
Santa Elena (Brazil) submitted by bat400_photo : Santa Elina rock shelter. Photo of the excavation from its southern side, showing Sector East in the first plan and Sector West in the back. (photo A.D. Vialou). Taken from Quaternary International, Volume 431, Part A, 28 February 2017, Pages 52-60. "Landscape and firewood selection in the Santa Elina rock shelter (Mato Grosso, Brazil) during the Holocene," Authors: Caroline Bachelet, Rita Sch... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art and habitation site in Mato Grosso State, Brazil.
More than one thousand anthropomorphic and animal figures and geometric signs have been inventoried in this rock shelter. Excavations conducted between 1985 and 2005, directed by researchers (National Museum of Natural History, Paris, and São Paulo University) revealed a stratigraphical sequence from the Late Pleistocene (3000 yr BP) to the Late Holocene (10000 yr BP.)

Lithic material, colorants, and plant remains were discovered in large quantities along with the megafauna remains at the lower levels with cultural associations.

Recently published reports describe giant sloth bones , stone artifacts, and charcoal dating to 23000 yr BP.

The location given is only approximate for the region. Access to the site is unknown.

Note: People may have lived in central Brazil more than 20,000 years ago. See comment.
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Re: People may have lived in Brazil more than 20,000 years ago by Anonymous on Wednesday, 12 July 2023
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Re: People may have lived in Brazil more than 20,000 years ago by Anonymous on Wednesday, 12 July 2023
PERHAPS HUMANS MIGRATED FROM THE SOUTH INTO SOUTH AMERICA,,,LIKE BEFORE THERE WAS ANY ICE ON ANTARCTICA,,,AND THATS WHY HUMANS MOVED NORTH TO BRAZIL DUE TO CLIMATE C HANGES, ICE SHEETS FORMING IN ANTARCTICA,,TOO MANY WINTER CONDITIONS TO OFTEN,,THATS MY GUESS,,,
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Re: People may have lived in Brazil more than 20,000 years ago by Anonymous on Wednesday, 12 July 2023
MOST. INTERESTING ARCHAEOLOGY. INFO,,,,KEEP. GOING DUDES!!!
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Other publications about Santa Elena by bat400 on Thursday, 07 September 2017
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Abstract:
Santa Elina rock shelter, in Central Brazil, is renowned for its astounding rock art, rare preservation of plant remains, and long-lasting occupation. Different groups of hunter–gatherers dwelt in this place since the Late Pleistocene until Late Holocene, leaving many vestiges of their passage. Charcoal samples from its upper archaeological assemblage, at Sector West of the site (dated c. 2000–3500 BP), and from its intermediate archaeological assemblage, at Sector East (dated c. 9000–10000 BP), were analyzed according to standard anthracological methods. Samples of dispersed charcoal from four archaeological levels were analyzed in the former, and from eight combustion structures in the latter. Despite the heterogeneity in the assemblages, interesting palaeoenvironmental and palaeoethnobotanical results were produced. During the late Holocene the shelter was surrounded by a semideciduous forest similar to the present one, under similar climate. Similar conditions might have occurred in the early Holocene, or the vegetation could have been a more open cerrado physiognomy, thus under a drier climate. Firewood gathering strategies in both periods involved the opportunistic collection of dead wood. Evidence of firewood selection is presented for bamboo in the late Holocene and for Anadenanthera in the early and in late Holocene.

For more, see Quaternary International, Vol 431, Part A, 28 Feb 2017, Pages 52-60, Caroline Bachelet, Rita Scheel-Ybert, "Landscape and firewood selection in the Santa Elina rock shelter (Mato Grosso, Brazil) during the Holocene"
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People may have lived in Brazil more than 20,000 years ago by bat400 on Wednesday, 06 September 2017
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People hunted giant sloths in the center of South America around 23,120 years ago, researchers say — a find that adds to evidence that humans reached South America well before Clovis hunters roamed North America roughly 13,000 years ago.

Evidence of people’s presence at Santa Elina rock shelter so long ago raises questions about how people first entered South America. Early settlers may have floated down the Pacific Coast in canoes before heading 2,000 kilometers east to the remote rock shelter, or they might have taken an inland route from North America, archaeologist Denis Vialou of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and his colleagues report in the August Antiquity.

Excavations at Santa Elina from 1984 to 2004 revealed three sediment layers containing numerous stone artifacts and bones of giant sloths called Glossotherium. Sloth remains included small, bony plates from the skin that humans made into ornaments of some kind by adding notches and holes. Sediment layers also contained remains of hearths.

Three dating methods, applied to charcoal particles, sediment and sloth bones, indicate that people first reached Santa Elina more than 20,000 years ago. Humans again visited the rock shelter from around 10,120 to 2,000 years ago, the researchers say.

For more, see http://www.sciencenews.org and Antiquity, Volume 91, Issue 358, Aug 2017 , pp. 865-884. "Peopling South America's centre: the late Pleistocene site of Santa Elina"
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