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Pedra Furada in Brazil and its ‘presumed’ evidence: limitations and potential of the available data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Fabio Parenti ,
Michel Fontugue  and
Claude Guérin
Fabio Parenti
Affiliation:
Instituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Piazza Mincio 2, 00198 Rome, Italy
Michel Fontugue
Affiliation:
Centre des Faibles Radioactivités, Laboratoire mixte CNRS/CEA, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
Claude Guérin
Affiliation:
Département des Sciences de la Terre, Université Claude Bernard-Lyon 1, 43 Boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbane Cédex, France
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Recent prehistoric and palaeoanthropological debate is focusing new interest on the peopling of the Americas — an old and difficult research-case. Proponents of new sites need to submit their putative 'new and revolutionary' discoveries to a wider judgement, mainly contra sceptics and partisans of more conservative theories. Such a review is helpful, and we are grateful to our colleagues for their considered assessment of the evidence proposed in our Brazilian research. Nevertheless their view of the Pedra Furada evidence has gaps, misunderstandings and ambiguities.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 268 , June 1996 , pp. 416 - 421
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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