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2 - The Peopling of Brazil to 1700
Herbert S. Klein, Columbia University, New York, Francisco Vidal Luna, Universidade de São Paulo
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Brazil

Published online:

19 October 2023

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02 November 2023, pp 23-66
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The origins of early Man in America, the north to south migrations from Siberia and the settlment of early man in Eastern South America and the demography of Portuguese settlers,

The demonstration of human antiquity: three rediscovered illustrations from the 1825 and 1846 excavations in Kent's Cavern (Torquay, England)
M.J. White, P.B. Pettitt
Journal:

Antiquity / Volume 83 / Issue 321 / September 2009

Published online by Cambridge University Press:

02 January 2015, pp. 758-768

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September 2009
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The authors disentangle the fascinating tale of the investigations in Kent's Cavern, iconic site for the acceptance of early man. The drawings they have discovered in the archives of the Geological Society are the only ones known from the earliest excavations and they are published here for the first time. As this paper shows, it takes intellectual courage to be an archaeologist. Whatever the enormity of his challenge to contemporary religion, I like to think that MacEnery would have been fairly supported by Antiquity's reviewing system. But perhaps our doctrinal challenges are lesser ones.…

12 - EARLY MAN IN IRAN
from PART 2 - THE PEOPLE
- By E. Sunderland, University of Durham
Edited by W. B. Fisher
Book:

The Cambridge History of Iran

Published online:

28 March 2008

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01 October 1968, pp 393-408
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There is no fossil evidence from the Middle East as a whole, let alone Iran, for anything but the most limited traces of very early human occupations. Even this limited evidence is sufficient to prove that Palaeolithic man lived in many parts of Iran, ranging from Lake Rezāʾiyeh (Urumiyeh) in the north-west to Shiraz in the south-west, to the south-eastern littoral of the Caspian and eastward into southern Khurāsān. The cave of Bīsitūn, located some thirty miles east of Kirmānshāh, has provided evidence of one ulna fragment and one human incisor tooth, in association with a highly developed Mousterian industry. The skull discovered in a cave in Teshik Tash distinctly resembles that of a western Neanderthaler, though it is morphologically more modern than those of most, if not all, the western Neanderthalers, particularly because it has a higher cranial vault.