(5 Jul 1996) RR9627/D - BRAZIL: AMAZON CAVE PAINTINGS

(Dur: 7 min 14 sec/ english sot: 59 sec/ portuguese sot 26 sec)

Music:
1. Authentic South America 5 - The Amazon SAS046 Tk. 15 "Pana
Rubber"/ 0338-0430.
2. Authentic South America 5 The Amazon SAS046 Tk 31 "Flute
Music"/0645

Deep in the Amazonian rainforest something stirs. An American
archaeologist, Dr Anna Roosevelt, grand-daughter of Theodore
Roosevelt, United States President from 1901 to 1909, is making
extraordinary claims on the origins of the first Amazonians. Far
from being cousins of tribesmen who migrated from North America
for a better life, natives of the region were flourishing here
11,000 years ago, just as the first humans were settling in the
area now known as the United States. The evidence: ancient cave
paintings in a remote part of northeastern Brazil known for
years but only recently accurately dated by Dr Anna Roosevelt
and her team using radio-carbon techniques. The sophistication
of the paintings and the range of subjects suggest a highly
developed community living on fruit, nuts and fish. According to
Dr Roosevelt, this overturns the traditional theory that South
America was uninhabited by humans until big game hunting north
American tribes learned to penetrate the dense tropical
rainforest.

SHOWS:

Brazil, recent: cliffs in the Amazon rainforest; details of
cave paintings; archaeologist Dr Anna Roosevelt and team; graphic
showing migration of first humans in north and south america;
Dr Anna Roosevelt sot; carved arrow heads; aerial views Amazon
basin; man-made rock pillar; truck stuck in mud; archaeologists
walk into cave; local guide Nelson Sadek sot, in Portugese with
English translation; cave paintings detail; Dr Anna Roosevelt;
Roosevelt demonstrates hand painting; Dr. Roosevelt sot; local
group of jungle dwelling people; market views, fish, fruit; Dr
Roosevelt sot; aerial views Amazon basin; band on airfield; Dr
Roosevelt gets out of plane, greeted by reception committee;
church; cliffs and paintings.

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