Paleoindian Solar and Stellar Pictographic Trail in the Monte Alegre Hills of Brazil: Implications for Pioneering New Landscapes

Davis, Christopher; Roosevelt, Anna C.; Barnett, William K.; Brown, J. P.

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“…Following our 1990s research at Monte Alegre, my University of Illinois graduate student Christoper Davis (2009Davis ( , 2011Davis ( , 2014 His four wood charcoal accelerator radiocarbon dates were exactly the same age as our four radiocarbon and three Luminescence dates of the earliest Paleoindian levels at the cavern (DAVIS, 2016;DAVIS et al 2017). His dates, which were from the University of Arizona Radiocarbon Laboaratory, were accelerator dates and had errors less than plus or minus 71 years, significantly smaller than most Clovis dates from the same lab.…”

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The Sequence of Amazon Prehistory: A Methodology for Ethical Science

Roosevelt¹

2022

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This article is about my research on the prehistory of the mainstream lower Amazon in Brazil and problems in research ethics there. The "New Archaeology", my dissertation in the Orinoco, Venezuela, and my museum job led me rethink the human occupation of the tropical forest. I was influenced by 19th century naturalists' research on Amazon archaeology. They recognized an occupation that began thousands of years ago with hunters who made projectile points and monumental rock art and early fishing villagers with pottery and culminated by the time of the European conquest in populous civilizations with mounds and elaborately decorated pottery vessels and figures. But in the mid-twentieth-century, "scientific" archaeologists decided that the sequence had been short and derivative, impeded by the hot, humid tropical forest. They ignored the early cultures and attributed Amazonian cultures to intrusions from the Andes. When radiometric dating contradicted their chronology, they suppressed the problematic dates and when other North Americans came to do research they tried to prevent their excavation permits and criticized them with false statements about their own teams' results. Thus, they involved Brazilian proteges in unethical practices and prevented their rediscovery of the sequence of the 19th century naturalists.

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The Sequence of Amazon Prehistory: A Methodology for Ethical Science

Roosevelt¹

2022

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Amazonian Animism: Natural World Annotations in Paleoindian Cave Art

Davis

2023

Amazon Ecosystem - Past Discoveries and Future Prospects

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Cultures that first settled the Lower Amazon basin in Brazil entered rainforests and caves that were already inhabited, long ago, by owls, bats, frogs, and numerous other animals. The animal activities left natural patterns that informed early cultures about viable locations, navigable paths, and ample resources. Rock Art painted in the Monte Alegre hills of Pará, Brazil, on the banks of the lower Amazon River appears to have annotated some of these locations and natural patterns, not always as direct representational art, but sometimes as animistic and mnemonic symbolism. This chapter presents three ways in which the natural world was revered in animistic rock art at Monte Alegre. The first is through inspirations or decisions for where, in the landscape, to paint in red and yellow hues, which may have been triggered by areas where naturally-occurring red and yellow lichen circles grew on trees and rocks. The second is through “patron” animals drawn, and often personified, at the entrance of caves where the natural animal proliferates. The third is through ritual magic of animal drawings “touched” by painted handprints. Amazonian animism is based on a legacy of honoring nature’s patterned relationships.

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Paleoindian Solar and Stellar Pictographic Trail in the Monte Alegre Hills of Brazil: Implications for Pioneering New Landscapes

Cited by 2 publications

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The Sequence of Amazon Prehistory: A Methodology for Ethical Science

The Sequence of Amazon Prehistory: A Methodology for Ethical Science

Amazonian Animism: Natural World Annotations in Paleoindian Cave Art

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