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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 last phase of dispersion of the Tupi-Guaraní peoples occurred around the year 1,000. The speakers of languages associated with the Tupi-Guaraní family were already settled in southern Brazil (Guaraní, for example), in the Amazon basin, and also on the coast of Brazil (Potiguara, Tupinambá, Tupiniquin). Thanks to an extensive network of ...
More recent examples have been found in Minas Gerais and Goiás, showing geometric patterns and animal forms. [ 2 ] One of the most sophisticated kinds of Pre-Columbian artifact found in Brazil is the sophisticated Marajoara pottery (c. 800–1400 AD), from cultures flourishing on Marajó Island and around the region of Santarém , decorated ...
Brazil: The Once and Future Country (2nd ed. 1998), an interpretive synthesis of Brazil's history. Fausto, Boris, and Arthur Brakel. A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories) (2nd ed. 2014) excerpt and text search; Garfield, Seth. In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region. Durham: Duke ...
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 ...
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.
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)
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.