Human fossils with megafauna at Lagoa Santa
Fósiles humanos junto a megafauna en Lagoa Santa
- Date
- 1835-1844 · confidence high
- Place
- Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Credited to
- Peter Wilhelm Lund
- People
- 👤 Peter Wilhelm Lund1801–1880
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What was discovered
Lund excavated hundreds of caves and found human remains associated with extinct fauna, suggesting the great antiquity of humans in the Americas. He founded Brazilian palaeontology.
The stratigraphic association was disputed in his time; modern dating has partly confirmed it (c. 11,000 years).
What it led to
- the debate over human antiquity in the Americas
- the discovery of Luzia (1975)