Background Most investigations regarding the First Americans have primarily focused on
four themes: when the New World was settled by humans; where they came from; how many …

The last decades of fieldwork have not decisively upset the long-held view that the
settlement of the Americas occurred in the very latest Pleistocene, as marked in North …

Megafauna paintings have accompanied the earliest archaeological contexts across the
continents, revealing a fundamental inter-relationship between early humans and …

The date of the first settlement of the Americas remains a contentious subject. Previous
claims for very early occupation at Pedra Furada in Brazil were not universally accepted …

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

Important to an understanding of the first peopling of any continent is an understanding of
human dispersion and adaptation and their archeological signatures. Until recently, the …

Early Archaic human skeletal remains found in a burial context in Lapa do Santo in east-
central Brazil provide a rare glimpse into the lives of hunter-gatherer communities in South …

During the late Pleistocene and early Holocene, climatic, faunistic, and ecological changes
could produce social readjustments and technological innovations in human populations …

Pedra Furada in northeastern Brazil represents possibly the oldest known human site in the
Americas. Since C-14 dates of 48-32,000 BP were reported in a Nature article (Guidon and …

Research in the low plains of Uruguay suggests that during the early settlement of this area
of South America, there was an interesting cultural diversity. Recent radiocarbon ages from …