Definition: The site of Capelinha is a Paleoindian site in the Ribeira do Iguape Valley of Sao Paulo state in Brazil, and it is a shell midden with six human burials. Radiocarbon and AMS dates place the burials between 10,500 and 9900 years old. Of the six burials, five were badly fragmented; the sixth was an adult male, an articulated primary burial. The site was excavated by G. C. Collet in the mid-1980s, and physical anthropological studies of the skeleton have been conducted by a team out of the University of Sao Paulo, led by Walter Neves. Based on comparison with the W.W. Howell's collections, the skeletal material from Capelinha appears to be 'Australo-melanesian' type, as defined by Neves.
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This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology. Sources for the term include the references listed on the front page of the Dictionary, and the websites listed in the sidebar. Any mistakes are the responsibility of Kris Hirst.
