US EditionNiède Guidon, the Archaeologist Who Discovered Hundreds of Cave Paintings in Brazil, Dies at 92
- Niède Guidon, a Brazilian archaeologist, passed away at 92, as announced by Serra da Capivara National Park.
- In the 1970s, Guidon documented cave paintings in Piaui, which she argued date back to 35,000 years and human bones to 15,000 years.
- Guidon proposed that humans arrived in the Americas from Africa by sea much earlier than previously believed, challenging existing theories.
- Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expressed sadness over Guidon's death and recognized her contributions to understanding human origins in the Americas.
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Brazilian archeologist Niède Guidon has been buried this Thursday in the garden of her home, in São Raimundo Nonato, a city in the interior of the State of Piauí through which one enters the remote national park of cave paintings to which she dedicated her life, the Sierra de la Capivara. The investigations that Guidon, who died on the eve of 92 years, carried out for decades on that prehistoric site —one of the largest in America— revolutionize…
Niède Guidon, the archaeologist who discovered hundreds of cave paintings in Brazil, dies at 92
Niède Guidon, the Brazilian archaeologist known for discovering hundreds of prehistoric cave paintings in northeastern Brazil and for her research challenging theories of ancient human presence in the Americas, died Wednesday at 92, the Serra da Capivara National Park announced.
An unusual figure in Brazilian archaeology, the one that was nicknamed the "Napoléon du Sertao" managed to put this region of the Brazilian Nordest on the world maps of prehistory. She died Wednesday, June 4, at the age of 92.
Niède Guidon – the archeologist whose tenacity gave Brazil two national parks and two museums, and who raised the National Park Serra da Capivara in place of one of the world's most important archaeological sites – died today in São Raimundo Noato, the nearby town. The birth certificate indicates that Niède lived 92 years – but its discoveries, which helped the human occupation theories in the Americas to revolutionize the French-Brazilian peopl…
Known as the defense role of the Capivara Serra, in Piauí, she discovered that in the 1970s, paintings of the first human beings living in Brazil The archaeologist Niède Guidon died in the morning of this Thursday (4). According to the g1, the information of death was confirmed by the director of the National Park of the Capivara São Raimundo Noato, Marian Rodrigues, who said that Niède, who was 92 years old, "partred as a passenger, calm".
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