A 2022 paper by Agnolín and Agnolín suggested that tools from Pleistocene archaeological sites in this country were not made by humans but by capuchin monkeys. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country, which was called a “counterfeit paradise” by an archaeologist who developed the now-discredited environmental limitation hypothesis based on work here.
ANSWER: Brazil (The environmental limitation hypothesis was developed by Betty Meggers.)
[10h] Niède Guidon has controversially claimed that this Brazilian site in the Serra da Capivara park contains evidence of human activity dating to over 45,000 years ago, which would make it double the age of any other confirmed site.
ANSWER: Pedra Furada
[10e] The Pedra Furada monkeys set back challenges to an American settlement model named for these people “first.” Originally thought to have walked over a land bridge from Siberia, these people may have traversed the Pacific Coast south.
ANSWER: Clovis culture [accept Clovis First]
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