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 …

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 …

The Itaparica tradition is a lithic industry largely known with evidences of its presence in sites
all over Brazil's Central Plateau. Its main characteristic is the overwhelming presence of …

The great archaeological potential of the Serra da Capivara region, State of Piauí, Brazil,
has already been demonstrated in many publications, mainly about the rock art in …

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

This work pretends to discuss the formation processes of the archaeological record of the
Lajeado region, middle Tocantins river, through an analysis of the lithic tecnological …

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

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

The Serra da Capivara region is under continuing investigation over the past 30 years. In
recent years, in the context of a speci c research on Pleistocene human settlements, many …

In this paper we discuss the occupation process of Central Brazilian Plateau during the end
of the Pleistocene and the early Holocene calling attention on two main issues: technology …