Paleoindian Site in Central São Paulo State, Brazil: Bastos Site, Dourado County
Author(s): Letícia Correa; Astolfo Araujo
Year: 2018
Summary
Bastos site, located in central São Paulo State, provided ages between 7,600 and 12,600 cal BP.The lithic industry is composed by flakes on silicified sandstone, with rare unifacial retouch, without formal artifacts. The site probably represents a habitation area in a river terrace, later covered by acolluvial fan. Refitting pieces attest the overall integrity of the spatial positioning of the archaeological materials. The site is the oldest found in São Paulo, and is contemporaneous to sites from Lagoa Santa and Pains regions, in Minas Gerais State. However, the lithic industry is unrelated to the ones found in these areas, suggesting the existence of a different Paleoindian group
Cite this Record
Paleoindian Site in Central São Paulo State, Brazil: Bastos Site, Dourado County. Letícia Correa, Astolfo Araujo. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443320)
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Keywords
General
Geoarchaeology
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Lithic Analysis
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Material Culture and Technology
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Paleoindian and Paleoamerican
Geographic Keywords
South America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 21774