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World Heritage places tagged “pre clovis”

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🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art

Pedra Furada Rock Art

Pleistocene to Early Holocene · Nordeste Tradition (early Amerind)

Capivara arch shelter heart of 1,150-painting Nordeste tradition with pre-Clovis debate hearths.

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🇧🇷 Brazil · Rock art

Serra da Capivara Rock Art

Upper Paleolithic to early Holocene (~25,000 BCE – 2000 BCE disputed; art ~9000 BCE onward) · Paleoindian / early Nordeste tradition; Pedra Furada phase

Semiarid caatinga plateau with over 400 painted shelters bearing perhaps 30,000 figures, among the densest and most narrative rock-art landscapes in the Americas.