One of 43 skeletons found at the archaeological site of São Luís, Brazil.Image credit: W Lage Arqueologia
Posted on 02/02/2024 1:55:47 PM PST by SunkenCiv
...Archaeologists already knew that the São Luís area, also called Upaon-Açu, meaning "big island" in the Tupí-Guaraní Indigenous languages, held traces of prehistoric human activity. For instance, a prehistoric jawbone was discovered at Farm Rosane in the 1970s and other artifacts found in São Luís have dated to 6,000 years ago, Wellington Lage, the lead archaeologist of the recent excavations, told Live Science. The remains were attributed to the Sambaquian peoples. This group relied on marine resources and built shell mounds with leftover food refuse that reached up to 100 feet (30 meters) high.
The latest excavation, which began in June 2019, initially revealed a variety of fragmented ceramics and stone tools. Then, during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, archaeologists found the first skeleton about 24 inches (60 centimeters) below the surface.
Since then, the team has found a total of 43 skeletons and around 100,000 artifact fragments from at least four different sediment layers, suggesting the site was occupied by people in at least four distinct periods spanning up to 8,500 years.
According to Lage, the skeletons are of short stature, with the tallest being 5 feet, 3 inches (1.6 m). Most of them belong to adult men, and there are remains of two children. "Initial analysis suggests that these were individuals involved in strenuous physical activities, evidenced by bone marks indicating load and extensive mobility," Lage told Live Science.
The deepest-buried skeleton was discovered nearly 7 feet (2 m) underground. The archaeologists dated it using a technique called optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating. This technique determines when certain minerals near the bones were last exposed to heat or sunlight. The results pointed to a timeframe between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago, revealing a possible, mysterious pre-Sambaquian population in the region.
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One of 43 skeletons found at the archaeological site of São Luís, Brazil.Image credit: W Lage Arqueologia
Some incredibly old human remains have been found in South America. Where did they come from?
Wow!
How did they get there? By boat or on foot.
I would like to hear the results of a DNA test.
Well you see, when a mommy and a daddy love each other very much....
Right there in Brazil where they lived and died-Their tools and pottery were found there, too. Archaeologists have found plenty of evidence that people have been living in South America since at least 30-35,000 years ago-they were probably there before then, too. Ice Age = low sea levels, so curious people could travel easily by boat from one place to another-even the next continent and not be far from land-people have always been into traveling to get new stuff in trade, maybe new women to have, etc...
Some incredibly old human remains have been found in South America. Where did they come from?
Humans have had ocean going boat tech for at least 50,000 years they came from the West probably from Polynesian area or Australia the currents run the right way for either. Humans crossed into Australia 50000 years ago across at least 200 miles of open ocean against the winds certain times of year. A German paddled a kayak from Germany to Australia by hand over 20,000 miles and across the Indian Ocean. Another group left South America on a balsa raft and went the other way to deep into Polynesian waters. The same man then built a reed boat using 5000+ year old Egyptian design and left the Mediterranean for North America they made it on the second try. There is more than a few references to Inuit being seen on kayaks in the north sea off the coast of Scotland. An Irish man made a cowhide boat using Stone age methods and sailed it from Ireland to New York not a single metal nail was used. Point is humans mastered open ocean travels long before history was written. There is evidence of Neanderthal boating hundreds of miles each way in the Mediterranean basin 100,000 years ago. Neanderthals had almost twice the brain case size humans do they were an advanced people for the time frame in the Paleolithic.
Their mommies and daddies. :^)
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/chile-15000-year-old-footprint-trnd/index.html
They were created and transported by our Anunnaki masters before the flood of Noah.
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