ABSTRACT The Lagoa Santa region, located in southeastern Brazil, has been studied
archaeologically since the nineteenth century. Paleoindian lithic industries in Brazil have …

During the second half of the twentieth century, Brazilian archaeologists organized the
Paleoindian sites of southeastern and southern Brazil into an archaeological cultural unit …

In this article we present the results of a series of analysis performed on a lithic artifact from
the Itaparica industry, a limace, found in Lapa Grande de Taquaraçu, an archaeological site …

Brazilian archaeological literature has insisted for decades upon associating hunter-
gatherer sites dated to the Pleistocene–Holocene transition either to the Itaparica tradition, if …

Lapa do Santo rockshelter, a Paleoindian site located in Eastern-Central Brazil, presented
two main occupations; one during Early Holocene (12,460 to 8700 cal BP), and a latter in …

The first dense settlement in central and northeast Brazil, starting ca. 13,000 cal yr BP, is
often associated in the literature with the “Itaparica tradition.” This assumed homogeneous …

Northeastern Brazil has thousands of wetland fossiliferous deposits with megafauna and, in
some cases, associated lithic artifacts. The timing of the arrival of humans in South America …

In this chapter, we delineate a brief history of the interpretations about lithic technological
variability in Lagoa Santa region during the early Holocene. We begin presenting some …

The lithic industries of the period between the Pleistocene/Holocene transition and the
contact with the Neo-Brazilians, in the North of the state of Minas Gerais, can be approached …

Experimental archaeology, especially experimental lithic technology, has not yet been
established as a line of research in Brazil (or most of South America). This article presents …