Paleoindian Sites and their Cultural Diversity in Southeast, Brazil: A Case Study from São Paulo State

Summary

This is an abstract from the "“The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The archaeological record for the early Holocene in Brazil shows great cultural diversity, suggesting the coexistence of different groups. Recently, we have noticed that São Paulo State does not behave differently. These distinct groups inhabited shelters, open-air areas, and fluvial shell mounds, leaving a very diverse lithic industry characterized by assemblages with points, slugs, retouched flakes, or simple flake products, ranging from very dense industries to those with less evidence. Some of these sites still show a long-term occupation with a possible cultural continuity evidenced by stone tools. In this presentation, we will discuss how those dated sites and their lithic industries have been used to understand human dispersal in the area and how they can be related to the surrounding finds.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• “The South Also Exists”: The Current State of Prehistoric Archaeology in Brazil: Dialogues across Different Theoretical Approaches and Research Agendas   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38860.0