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  1. 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 ...

  2. Jan 15, 2024 · Scientists have long debated exactly when and how humans arrived in and populated the Americas from Asia. Lage's find suggests they settled this region of modern-day Brazil at least 1,400 years ...

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  4. Sep 5, 2017 · Three dating methods, applied to charcoal particles, sediment and sloth bones, indicate that people first reached Santa Elina more than 20,000 years ago. Humans again visited the rock shelter from ...

  5. Jan 15, 2019 · The article covers the period from 1500 to c . 1580 when a dynastic crisis brought Portugal and its empire under the control of King Phillip II of Spain. At first a number of royally commissioned voyages of exploration visited the Brazilian coast, but, for the most part, contact was in private hands since the Portuguese Crown granted contracts ...

  6. The history of colonial Brazil is a story of violence and slavery but also one of an amalgamation of some of the world´s most interesting cultures. Discovered by the Portuguese in 1500, colonization would see an acceleration some thirty years later. With the aim of supplying of sugar and wood for the metropolitan areas, Portuguese regime in ...

  7. Beginning possibly as early as 3.3 million years ago, our distant pre-human ancestors began using stone tools for a variety of purposes. This event marks the start of the Paleolithic Age (lithos means “stone”), which lasted until nearly twelve thousand years ago. The earliest known human-made stone tools date from about 2.6 million years ago.

  8. Apr 25, 2021 · Apr 25, 2021 11:25 6 min read. On the morning of April 22, 1500, after a long and tiring voyage, Portuguese captain Pedro Álvares Cabral spotted “a large hill, very high and round,” to the south of what is now the Brazilian state of Bahia. Partly by chance, Cabral had just discovered Brazil — originally called Vera Cruz — which he ...