🔥 BRAZIL: SKY IN FLAMES

BRAZIL. PIAUI STATE. On Saturday, October 26, 2024, in broad daylight, a trail of fire was observed in an "iridescent cloud" in the city of Picos and surrounding area, in the state of Piauí, in the northeast of Brazil. 

Iridescent means "something that reflects the colors of the rainbow". 

There is at least one report recording the appearance of fire in the sky in the state capital, the city of Teserina, located 311 km from Picos.

The "fire in the sky" caught the attention of the population and was the subject of a long report on the meteorological website Climatempo, copied and/or summarized in other media, including social networks.

The phenomenon results from the refraction of incident solar rays on ice crystals suspended in thin clouds, called "cirrus".

According to the "experts", this rare phenomenon occurs when the sun is positioned 58 degrees above the horizon and in the presence of cirrus clouds, which form in the upper troposphere, at an altitude of 10,000 meters and at temperatures below 0ºC.

In these specific and uncommon conditions, the ice crystals work as prisms that decompose the white light coming from the sun, projecting the colored rays in rainbow tones.

What the "experts" do not include in their explanations is that residues of chemical substances released by certain airplanes, reacting to the incidence of this light enhanced by the ice crystals, can produce this type of combustion that generates the flames, the fire track, recorded in the video released by citizens, and not just the colored lights characteristic of normal iridescent clouds.

SOURCES

Fenômeno raro, 'arco-íris de fogo' é visto no céu do Piauí

DIÁRIO DO NORDESTE, OCT28, 2024

https://diariodonordeste.verdesmares.com.br/ultima-hora/pi/fenomeno-raro-arco-iris-de-fogo-e-visto-no-ceu-do-piaui-veja-video-1.3576366

VÍDEO: “arco-íris de fogo” é visto no céu de Teresina

DOL, OCT28, 2024

https://dol.com.br/noticias/brasil/880623/video-arco-iris-de-fogo-e-visto-no-ceu-de-teresina

Brazil. Anthropology. 3,500 years Skeletons found at Piauí state

Photo/UOL notícias: André Pessoa 
+ RELATED 
NEW YORK TIMES, 03/27/2014 
Discoveries Challenge Beliefs on Humans’ Arrival in the Americas 
By SIMON ROMEROMARCH  
[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/world/americas/discoveries-challenge-beliefs-on-humans-arrival-in-the-americas.html?_r=0] 


BRAZIL. STATE OF PIAUÍ. ARCHAEOLOGY/ANTHROPOLOGY.  Researchers from the Museu do Homem Americano (Fumdham, Museum of American Man) found a cemetery with 12 human skeletons with approximately 3,500 years each one. The discovery  occured in one of about 800 archaeological sites of the Parque Nacional da Serra da Capivara, distant 540 km from Teresina city, state capital.

The first discoveries were made in March,  2013-  when a team of archaeologists was preparing another 10 sites for visitation when they perceived the evidence of a skeleton: was boy and could to have about a year, when he was buried (photos).

The bodies were buried in simple graves and funerary urns, and most of the bones belong to children, according to archaeologist Tania Santana.



Photo/UOL notícias: André Pessoa

More precisely, the cemetery is located at a place known as 'Toca do Gongo, a place that - since the year of 1970 - already has a history of harboring ancient tombs. So far, there are seven skeletons found in 12 graves. 

While the boy's bones has being scrutinized, the other six exemplars, that still are in into urns - will be worked out in laboratory.

The discovery of this cemetery is important  because there are few records of graves at Serra da Capivara. This complicates the study of nations who demonstrably occupied the area along tens of thousands of year.

The new material collected will allow researchers to stablish comparative studies about the different cultures that lived in the park and by this way begin to identify and recognize them.

Material was found in the Parque Nacional da Serra da Capivara. The archaeologist, Tanya Santana  said most of bones belong to children. Foto: Pedro Santiago/G1 

Beside the skeletons, also were found various lithic materials, rocks and minerals that may to have been used in various ways, which were collected and cataloged in the Fumdham's  laboratory.

The Parque Nacional da Capivara is an area which reachs the municipalities of Canto do Buriti, Coronel José Dias, São João do Piauí and, especially, the the territories around São Raimundo Nonato city.  

Since the 1970s, studies have confirmed that the man's presence in Serra da Capivara dates of 50,000 years, the oldest records discovered in America even now.

+ RELATED 
NEW YORK TIMES, 03/27/2014 
Discoveries Challenge Beliefs on Humans’ Arrival in the Americas 
By SIMON ROMEROMARCH  
[http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/world/americas/discoveries-challenge-beliefs-on-humans-arrival-in-the-americas.html?_r=0]

SOURCES
SANTIAGO, Pedro. Arqueólogas acham ossada de criança de 3.500 anos no Piauí.
G1 PIAUÍ/BRASIL, 03/28/2014
[http://g1.globo.com/pi/piaui/noticia/2014/03/arqueologas-acham-ossada-de-crianca-de-3500-anos-no-piaui.html]
OSSADAS DE 3 MIL ANOS NO PIAUÍ
NOTÍCIAS UOL, 04/03/2014
[http://noticias.uol.com.br/ciencia/album/2014/03/04/veja-imagens-de-ciencia-do-mes-marco2014.htm?abrefoto=42]