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For Lagoa Santa, a municipality in Goiás see Lagoa Santa, Goiás
Lagoa Santa, Goiás

Lagoa Santa is a small city and municipality in southeast Goi?s state, Brazil. Lagoa Santa is one of the most recent municipalities in the state, having been installed on 1 January 2001....


Lagoa Santa is a municipality and region in the state of Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais was so named for its great riches in the mining industry. It is one of the 26 states of Brazil of Brazil, the second most populous and fourth largest by area in the federation....
, Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
. It is located 37 km north-northeast from Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte The first Human settlement in the region occurred in the early 1700s, but the city as it is known today was planned and constructed in the 1890s, in order to replace Ouro Preto as the capital of Minas Gerais....
 and belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Belo Horizonte.

The Danish palaeontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund
Peter Wilhelm Lund

Peter Wilhelm Lund was a Denmark zoologist and paleontologist who spent most of his life working and living in Brazil.He was born in a wealthy family and studied Medicine at the University of Copenhagen....
 discovered a cave filled with human bones (15 skeletons) and megafauna
Megafauna

The term megafauna has two distinct meanings in the biological sciences. The less commonly found meaning is of any animal which can be seen with the unaided eye, in contrast to microfauna....
 (very large mammals) dating to the Pleistocene
Pleistocene

The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
 era.






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For Lagoa Santa, a municipality in Goiás see Lagoa Santa, Goiás
Lagoa Santa, Goiás

Lagoa Santa is a small city and municipality in southeast Goi?s state, Brazil. Lagoa Santa is one of the most recent municipalities in the state, having been installed on 1 January 2001....


Lagoa Santa is a municipality and region in the state of Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais

Minas Gerais was so named for its great riches in the mining industry. It is one of the 26 states of Brazil of Brazil, the second most populous and fourth largest by area in the federation....
, Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
. It is located 37 km north-northeast from Belo Horizonte
Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte The first Human settlement in the region occurred in the early 1700s, but the city as it is known today was planned and constructed in the 1890s, in order to replace Ouro Preto as the capital of Minas Gerais....
 and belongs to the mesoregion Metropolitana de Belo Horizonte and to the microregion of Belo Horizonte.

The Danish palaeontologist Peter Wilhelm Lund
Peter Wilhelm Lund

Peter Wilhelm Lund was a Denmark zoologist and paleontologist who spent most of his life working and living in Brazil.He was born in a wealthy family and studied Medicine at the University of Copenhagen....
 discovered a cave filled with human bones (15 skeletons) and megafauna
Megafauna

The term megafauna has two distinct meanings in the biological sciences. The less commonly found meaning is of any animal which can be seen with the unaided eye, in contrast to microfauna....
 (very large mammals) dating to the Pleistocene
Pleistocene

The Pleistocene is the epoch from 1.8 million to 10,000 years Before Present covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
 era. Eugen Warming
Eugenius Warming

Johannes Eugenius B?low Warming , known as Eugen Warming, was a Denmark botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology....
 assisted Lund 1863-1866, and described the flora of the area and the adaptations of the plants to the hazards of cerrado
Cerrado

The cerrado is a vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil. The cerrado is characterised by an enormous range of plant and animal biodiversity....
 - drought and fire - in a work that still stands as a paradigm of ecological study ('Lagoa Santa')
Eugenius Warming

Johannes Eugenius B?low Warming , known as Eugen Warming, was a Denmark botanist and a main founding figure of the scientific discipline of ecology....
.

A century later, in the 1970s, French archeologist Annette Laming-Emperaire
Annette Laming-Emperaire

Annette Laming-Emperaire was a French archeologist.Born in Saint Petersburg, Annette Laming studied philosophy in Paris until World War II began....
 carried out excavations in the area and discovered the oldest human fossil in Brazil, over 11 thousand years old, given the nickname Luzia
Luzia Woman

Luzia Woman is the name for the skeleton of a prehistory woman found in a cave in Brazil, South America. Some archaeologists believe the young woman may have been part of the first wave of immigrants to South America....
.

See also

  • List of municipalities in Minas Gerais
    List of municipalities in Minas Gerais (MG), Brazil

    This is a list of the municipalities in the States of Brazil of Minas Gerais, Brazil.See also*Geography of Brazil*List of cities in Brazil...