Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only a small band of renegade archaeologists, has become too compelling to ignore. Its thesis is that the first migration took place not 11,500 years ago but 20,000 or 30,000 or even 50,000 years ago. Although the evidence is still sketchy, archaeological digs in Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, the U.S. and Canada have yielded tantalizing clues that this radical notion might be correct. "This is a hot area of research," says Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution. "Man's origin in the New World is one of the major unanswered questions of archaeology...
Pedra Furada, Brazil...
...plausible places for early human settlement of the Americas, Pedra Furada, located in a region of dramatic sandstone cliffs in the arid outback of northeastern Brazil, is probably the most exciting -- and most disputed. When archaeologist Niede Guidon of the School for the Advanced Study of Social Sciences in Paris first excavated the site in 1978, she found cave paintings, ash-filled hearths and what she believes are stone tools that are at least 30,000 and perhaps more than 50,000 years old. Says Guidon: "I was the first person to be surprised. I believed the standard theories." Each...
Hovering over their quarrels about the outer world is domestic grief: the death of their 16-year-old son in Brazil, just before they were to return home, because he made the fatal error of wearing a shiny new watch to the beach. The parents realize that much of their high-minded shame about unknown babies malnourished by infant formula is really self-absorbed rage at the company for somehow causing the death of their son. This self-knowledge pervades the stunning finale. The husband has retreated to the Mexican inn where the couple spent their honeymoon. As he waits...
...assembly plant, the company is placing a huge vote of confidence in American manufacturing. It is also putting its fine-tuned reputation for quality engineering on the line. The factory will produce a new four-wheel-drive family car. Mercedes, which makes cars and trucks in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico, follows rival BMW, which is building a plant in South Carolina...