LEADER 04103nam 22006975 450 001 9911011653403321 005 20250620130330.0 010 $a3-031-93373-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-93373-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32163990 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32163990 035 $a(CKB)39412069900041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-93373-8 035 $a(OCoLC)1525144784 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939412069900041 100 $a20250620d2025 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBefore Sunset $eIce-Age Amazonian Rock Art and Archaeoastronomy at the Younger Dryas /$fby Christopher S. Davis 205 $a1st ed. 2025. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Springer,$d2025. 215 $a1 online resource (303 pages) 225 1 $aConflict, Environment, and Social Complexity,$x2730-5880 311 08$a3-031-93372-9 327 $aIntroduction: Monte Alegre Rock Art -- Geology and Climate Since the Last Ice Age -- Phenology and Ecology of Monte Alegre State Park -- Historical Accounts of the Rock Art -- Serra Da Lua and Serra Do Sol Rock Art -- Archaeoastronomy at Serra Da Lua and Serra Do Sol -- Stone Tools and Artifacts at Ererê -- Excavation and Investigation at Painel Do Pilao -- Solar-Aligned Pictographs at Painel Do Pilao -- Descendants or Inheritors?. 330 $aThrough a presentation of the oldest rock art dated in the Americas, located in Monte Alegre, Brazil, this book analyzes an ancient ecological-astronomy strategy that theoretically made the rapid human migration in the Americas successful. It helps answer two vital questions long held by scholars and the general public alike: How did humans survive the rapid and massive climate changes at the end of the ice age? And how did founding populations (especially in the Americas) manage successful settlement, relatively rapidly, in ecosystems entirely foreign to them? It further initiates questions about the universal role that astronomy (and even astrology) might have played in cognitive human evolution and the success of burgeoning sedentism and eventual "civilization" throughout the world. The book makes a substantial contribution because of the wealth of cultural information it provides from Monte Alegre. It explains the author's analysis of pictographs, lithics, and landscape modifications that were excavated there and provides novel findings on the chronology and archaeoastronomy of the art. This book is indispensable for courses about Paleoindians, peopling of the Americas, environmental anthropology, cosmology, rock art studies, archeoastronomy, paleoecology, paleoethnobotany, and Amazonia. The pan-American indications of this work will appeal to archaeologists, historians, art historians, folklorists, Native American and Indigenous scholars, evolutionists, cognitive scientists, geographers, and the general public. 410 0$aConflict, Environment, and Social Complexity,$x2730-5880 606 $aHuman evolution 606 $aAnthropology 606 $aEnvironmental archaeology 606 $aBioclimatology 606 $aPhysics$xHistory 606 $aPaleontology 606 $aEvolutionary Anthropology 606 $aEnvironmental Archaeology 606 $aClimate Change Ecology 606 $aHistory of Physics and Astronomy 606 $aPaleontology 615 0$aHuman evolution. 615 0$aAnthropology. 615 0$aEnvironmental archaeology. 615 0$aBioclimatology. 615 0$aPhysics$xHistory. 615 0$aPaleontology. 615 14$aEvolutionary Anthropology. 615 24$aEnvironmental Archaeology. 615 24$aClimate Change Ecology. 615 24$aHistory of Physics and Astronomy. 615 24$aPaleontology. 676 $a599.938 700 $aDavis$b Christopher S$053669 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911011653403321 996 $aBefore Sunset$94400556 997 $aUNINA