The big problem with Brazil's oldest archaeological site [Feat. North02]

Mr. North 2. Hello. Thanks for having me.

There's there's at least 10 people that are super psyched to see this. I've seen them in my comment sections. When are you guys going to make a video? Where do you think that picture is?

Do you have a guess? I think because I've already researched it for this video, I think. Is it Pedra Ferda? It is.

[Music] Pedra Farada is one of the most controversial sites in all of the Americas. It is claimed by some that humans occupied this site at least 32,000 years ago and potentially much much older than that. Sometimes when a an old site is found like this, there's a lot of debating about the accuracy of the dates. But what's interesting at Pedra Farada is not the the dating that seems to be on pretty solid ground.

The debate is whether these artifacts were actually made by humans. Let's get into it. Regardless of any controversy about the dating and the artifacts and any of that, Pedro Farerada is absolutely one of the most stunning archaeological sites in the Americas. The site is this huge series of of cliffs and rock faces.

Some of them absolutely covered in prehistoric art, animals, peoples, strange symbols, maybe even some people smooching. I don't know, though. Do you think this is a kiss or do you think this is flamingos or something? What would you bet?

I don't know. I It kind of looks like birds, but you know, their heads kind of look like humans or ostriches. Wait, it's in South America. There's no But they had uh they had a bunch of weird birds there, I think.

I think they have flamingos in Brazil. I'd love to visit. People of Brazil, please somehow get me over there. It looks fantastic.

And I want to go to Carnival. I want to dance. These paintings, as as spectacular as they are, date to within the last 12,000 years. Many of them probably within the last 6,000 years, 6 to 10,000 years.

The debate about when humans first arrived at this place began in 1986. Carbon 14 dates point to man in the Americas 32,000 years ago by Guidon and Delibrius. At the time there was a big debate as to whether any site in the Americas was older than 13,000 years ago. This was called the ...