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The pre-Cabraline history of Brazil is the stage in Brazil's history before the arrival of Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral in 1500, [1] at a time when the region that is now Brazilian territory was occupied by thousands of indigenous peoples. Traditional prehistory is generally divided into the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic ...
Social media in Brazil is the use of social networking applications in this South American nation. This is due to economic growth and the increasing availability of computers and smartphones. Brazil is the world's second-largest user of Twitter (at 41.2 million tweeters), and the largest market for YouTube outside the United States. [130]
Thus, the history of Brazil begins with the indigenous people in Brazil. The Portuguese arrived to the land that would become Brazil on April 22, 1500, commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral , an explorer on his way to India under the sponsorship of the Kingdom of Portugal and the support of the Catholic Church .
A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs. The fossils of the predator ...
Brazilian archeology is a work perspective within Archaeology that aims to work with the specific problems and conditions of archeology in Brazil. [1] Brazilian archeology proposes to combat Eurocentrism in the scientific production of the area in the country , seeking to rescue and preserve the Brazilian archaeological heritage .
The small reptile would have likely roamed the land of what is today southern Brazil, when the world was much hotter. The fossil has been identified as a new silesaurid, an extinct group of reptiles.
The ecological station protects one of the most arid areas of Brazil. It is one of the last remaining examples of the Caatinga biome, a xeric shrubland and thorn forest with cacti, which used to span over all north-east Brazil but has shrunk due to human activity. [42] Peruaçu River Canyon: Minas Gerais: 1998 iii, iv, v, vii, viii, ix, x (mixed)
Prehistoric humans in Brazil carved drawings in the rock next to dinosaur footprints, suggesting they may have found them meaningful or interesting, a study found.