US EditionWhale Hunting Began 5,000 Years Ago in South America, a Millennium Earlier than Previously Thought
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Whale Hunting in South America Began 5,000 Years Ago, Study Finds
Indigenous communities in southern Brazil hunted large cetaceans 5,000 years ago. Credit: Patricia del Amo Martín / ICTA-UAB / Public domain The hunting of large whales began thousands of years earlier than scientists once believed, according to new research from South America that is reshaping long-held views of early maritime societies. Researchers report that Indigenous coastal communities were hunting large cetaceans about 5,000 years ago—ro…
Whale hunting began 5,000 years ago in South America, a millennium earlier than previously thought
The hunting of large whales goes back much further in time than previously thought. New research from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Prehistory of the UAB reveals that Indigenous communities in southern Brazil were hunting large cetaceans 5,000 years ago, around a thousand years before the earliest documented evidence from Arctic and North Pacific so…
An international research led by the Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología Ambientales de la...
The hunting of large whales was not born where we believed. An international study led by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona reveals that indigenous communities in southern Brazil hunted large cetaceans 5,000 years ago, advancing in more than a millennium the evidence known so far.The finding, published in Nature Communications, breaks with decades of scientific consensus and places South America at the origin of one of the most complex marit…
The study, published in the magazine Nature Communications and quoted in the sixth-day by the Efe agency, refers to the peoples of the Baía de Babitonga region, Brazil, who built Sambaquis - mountains of monumental corners that served as habitats or cemeterys - along the coast, had specific technologies for hunting these cetaceans long before they indicated archaeological research. In a communication, the University of Barcelona (UAB) noted that…
The hunting of large whales goes far back in time than was believed. A new research by the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Prehistory of the UAB reveals that indigenous communities in southern Brazil hunted large cetaceans 5,000 years ago, about a thousand years before the first documented evidence in Arctic and North Pacific societies.
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