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Lapa do Santo

Rock shelter in the Lagoa Santa karst of Minas Gerais, Brazil, holding one of the longest early-Holocene burial sequences in the Americas. Its graves record deliberate mortuary treatment - tooth removal, defleshing, exposure to fire - including the oldest documented decapitation in the New World.

Dated events and their evidence

• 10,700 BCE mainstream
  first occupation phase begins (12.7 cal kyBP) source
• 8,600 BCE mainstream
  earliest primary burials (10.6-10.3 cal kyBP) source
• 7,600 BCE mainstream
  decapitated burial 26 and elaborate mortuary ritual (9.6 cal kyBP) source

Where

19.4778° S, 44.0389° W

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapa_do_Santo

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