Forget caravels for a minute. Brazil begins when this landmass was still glued to others and dinosaurs strutted like it was a Jurassic runway. Then came the megafauna — XXL creatures any modern zoo would refuse — and eventually the first peoples, who turned landscapes into living maps: rock art, rituals, origin stories, survival tech, and a sharp sense of place and climate.
In this chapter we blend science and imagination to track our ancestral “Brazilian way”: environment first, belief systems, community, and the humor of people who lived without Wi-Fi and created culture with stone, fire, and ridiculous creativity. No yawns, no preachy lectures — just archaeology with ABTM flavor: clear, visual, sarcastic, and impossible to forget.