Brazil Dating: Obituary
Olga de Souza Dantas Morison, 86, of 22 Rivermead Road, Peterborough, died Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003, at Rivermead Retirement Community after a battle with Alzheimer's Disease for five years.Mrs. Morison was born March 30, 1917, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, daughter of the late Maria (Godoy) and Marcos de Souza Dantas. She moved to Peterborough in 1998 and prior to that lived in Amherst and then Lyndeborough for 40 years.She was the wife of John H. Morison of Peterborough, to...
Brazil Dating: Migration theories debated
The fastest way to get an argument started in a meeting of archaeologists is to suggest that humans inhabited the Americas long before 11,500 B.P. (before present). This is the age of the fluted stone tools and weapons found at Clovis, N.M., and generally accepted as being made shortly after the first Americans made their way across the Bering Land Bridge created by the last glaciation. There have been voices raised in dissent such as that of Niede Guidon, who claims to have found evidence of...
Brazil Dating: Ancient culture comes to light in rain forest caves
Ancient caves deep in the Brazilian Amazon rain forest harbored a thriving society of people 11,000 years ago who painted astronomical symbols, made finely crafted spear points and collected fruits and nuts from the forest, an international team of archaeologists reports today. The scientists say their discovery challenges the long-held belief that South America was first populated in grasslands by big-game hunters from the North American Clovis culture. Rain forests, it was thought, did not...
Brazil Dating: FINE FOLK APPEAL SURPRISES LURK IN DETAILS OF LATIN AMERICAN OBJECTS AT UNION COLLEGE EXHIBIT
SCHENECTADY -- Put any of the folk objects at the Nott Memorial Mandeville Gallery in a Whitney Biennial or a chichi gallery and see just how out of place they would seem. In these simple objects made by untrained individuals over the last three centuries, you can see just how far the fine arts have evolved since the earliest totemic objects, such as the famous ``Venus of Willendorf,'' dating back 15,000 years. They succeed on a gut level, but they lack the issues...
Brazil Dating: The Guardian: Brazilians' long march to land reform
It's still dark when Juarez Santana Rocha tumbles off of his mattress, woken by music suddenly blaring from the truck carrying a noisy sound system.He and more than a thousand others from the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia have half an hour to gather their backpacks, grab some bread, gulp a coffee and form a line on the BR-060 motorway. Ahead of them the day will bring yet another leg of their epic 130-mile walk to the capital, Brasilia, calling for agrarian reform. At...