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Before Sunset: Ice-Age Amazonian Rock Art and Archaeoastronomy at the Younger Dryas

Before Sunset: Ice-Age Amazonian Rock Art and Archaeoastronomy at the Younger Dryas

Davis, Christopher S.

Hardcover

Series: Conflict, Environment, and Social Complexity

AnthropologyArchaeologyEvolution

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ISBN10: 3031933729
ISBN13: 9783031933721
Publisher: Springer
Published: Jun 21 2025
Pages: 287
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Through a presentation of the oldest rock art dated in the Americas, located in Monte Alegre, Brazil, this book analyzes an ancient ecological-astronomy strategy that theoretically made the rapid human migration in the Americas successful. It helps answer two vital questions long held by scholars and the general public alike: How did humans survive the rapid and massive climate changes at the end of the ice age? And how did founding populations (especially in the Americas) manage successful settlement, relatively rapidly, in ecosystems entirely foreign to them? It further initiates questions about the universal role that astronomy (and even astrology) might have played in cognitive human evolution and the success of burgeoning sedentism and eventual civilization throughout the world. The book makes a substantial contribution because of the wealth of cultural information it provides from Monte Alegre. It explains the author's analysis of pictographs, lithics, and landscape modifications that were excavated there and provides novel findings on the chronology and archaeoastronomy of the art.

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