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Excavated rock art sites in Brazil · Mysteria

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Excavated rock art sites in Brazil

3 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.

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🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art

Caverna da Pedra Pintada (Monte Alegre)

Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene (11–10 ka BCE) · Paleoindian (preceramic Amazonian foragers)

Amazon cuesta cave earliest Amazonian art 11 ka BCE with Amazon pollen and fishtail points.

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🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art

Pedra Furada — Rock Shelter North Panel (Piauí, Brazil)

Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age

Pedra Furada — Rock Shelter North Panel (Piauí, Brazil) in Piauí, Serra da Capivara, Pedra Furada, Brazil is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–50…

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🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art

Canoa Quebrada — Rock Art Shell Midden North (Ceará, Brazil)

Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age

Canoa Quebrada — Rock Art Shell Midden North (Ceará, Brazil) in Ceará, Canoa Quebrada, Brazil is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock a…