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Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: the archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil)
João Carlos Moreno De SousaDomingo C. Salazar-garcíaAlberto BarioniTiago HermenegildoXimena S. VillagranAstolfo Gomes De Mello AraujoClaudio CampiMariana InglezDanilo V. BernardoH. RockwellMark HubbeJoachim WahlKoji KawashitaJames K. FeathersFarid ChemaleTamsin C. O'connellRodrigo Elias OliveiraEmiliano Castro De OliveiraAndré StraussWalter Alves NevesIsabel IsradeGustavo Neves De SouzaMarcos César Bissaro Jr.Max ErnaniRafael De Oliveira Dos SantosRenato KipnisMarina GratãoFrancisco PuglieseMárcia Rita Fernandes MachadoMichael J RichardsKlervia Jaouensubject
010506 paleontologyArcheology060102 archaeologyGeneral Arts and HumanitiesArchaeological recordCannibalismContext (language use)06 humanities and the artsArqueologia01 natural sciencesArchaeologyGeographyTooth removalRITOS FUNERÁRIOSPeriod (geology)0601 history and archaeologyHolocene0105 earth and related environmental sciencesdescription
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 America, including their rituals for dealing with the dead. These included the reduction of the body by means of mutilation, defleshing, tooth removal, exposure to fire and possibly cannibalism, followed by the secondary burial of the remains according to strict rules. In a later period, pits were filled with disarticulated bones of a single individual without signs of body manipulation, demonstrating that the region was inhabited by dynamic groups in constant transformation over a period of centuries.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2016-11-21 |