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Human and natural agency: some comments on Pedra Furada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Luis Alberto Borrero*
Affiliation:
Programa de Estudios Prehistóricos, Bartolomé Mitre 1970-Piso 5, 1039 Buenos Aires, Argentina

Abstract

In the December 1994 issue, we published a view by Meltzer, Adovasio & Dillehay of Pedra Furada, the large cave-shelter in northeast Brazil whose deposits may show a precocious human occupation of the New World. This further comment addresses natural and human agencies there, and how the research community can choose between several interpretations becoming available.

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Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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