rock art at the pleistoceneholocene boundary in eastern south america岩石艺术在南美东部pleistoceneholocene边界.pdfVIP

Rock Art at the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary in Eastern South America 1 2 1 3 4 Walter A. Neves *, Astolfo G. M. Araujo , Danilo V. Bernardo , Renato Kipnis , James K. Feathers ´ ˆ ˜ ˜ ˜ 1 Laboratorio de Estudos Evolutivos Humanos, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo, CP11461, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2 Museu de Arqueologia e ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ ˜ Etnologia, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 3 Scientia Consultoria, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 4 University of Washington Luminescence Dating Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America Abstract 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 migrations or colonization pulses from elsewhere were involved in the process; and what kinds of subsistence patterns and material culture they developed during the first millennia of colonization. Little is known, however, about the symbolic world of the first humans who settled the New World, because artistic manifestations either as rock-art, ornaments, and portable art objects dated to the Pleistocene/ Holocene transition are exceedingly rare in the Americas. Methodology/Principal Findings: Here we report a pecked anthropomorphic figure engraved in the bedrock of Lapa do Santo, an archaeological site located in Central Brazil. The horizontal projection of the radiocarbon