{"id":29435,"date":"2025-06-10T22:19:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29435"},"modified":"2025-06-10T22:23:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T22:23:41","slug":"niede-guidon-92-archaeologist-who-preserved-prehistoric-rock-art-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29435","title":{"rendered":"Niede Guidon, 92, Archaeologist Who Preserved Prehistoric Rock Art, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Her work in Brazil challenged the prevailing theory of when humans first arrived in the Americas and led to the development of a forgotten corner of the country.<\/p>\n

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Niede Guidon, a Brazilian archaeologist whose work called into question a longstanding theory of how the Americas were first populated by humans, and who almost single-handedly transformed a hardscrabble region of northeast Brazil into the Serra da Capivara National Park, died on Wednesday at her home near the park, in S\u00e3o Raimundo Nonato. She was 92.<\/p>\n

Marian Rodrigues, the park\u2019s director, said the cause was a heart attack.<\/p>\n

Dr. Guidon was perhaps best known in international scientific circles for her disputed findings that human beings arrived in the Americas 30,000 years ago or more. But few questioned her accomplishments in tracking down and preserving hundreds of millennia-old rock paintings in a semiarid, cactus-studded, impoverished corner of Piau\u00ed state.<\/p>\n

In 1979, at her insistence, the Brazilian government made the area a national park, and in 1991, again largely because of her, UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency, declared it a World Heritage site. She then became instrumental in the creation of two museums nearby: The Museum of the American Man<\/a>, which opened in 1996, and the Museum of Nature<\/a>, in 2018. And she had an outsize role in attracting investment to the town, leading to a new airport and a federal university campus and to vastly improved public education in the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe best way to preserve the paintings was to preserve the surroundings, and to preserve the surroundings, you had to provide resources for the people,\u201d Antoine Lourdeau, a French archaeologist who worked with Dr. Guidon on and off for about a decade starting in 2006, said in an interview. \u201cI don\u2019t think most archaeologists are conscious of the social implications of their own work.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cave paintings in the Serra da Capivara National Park. Dr. Guidon tracked down and preserved hundreds of millennia-old rock paintings in a semiarid, cactus-studded, impoverished corner of Piau\u00ed state.<\/span>Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In 1979, at Dr. Guidon\u2019s insistence, the Brazilian government made the area where she had been excavating a national park, and in 1991, again largely because of her, UNESCO declared it a World Heritage site. <\/span>Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Her work in Brazil challenged the prevailing theory of when humans first arrived in the Americas and led to the development of a forgotten corner of the country.Niede Guidon, a Brazilian archaeologist whose work called into question a longstanding theory of how the Americas were first populated by humans, and who almost single-handedly transformed a hardscrabble region of northeast Brazil into the Serra da Capivara National Park, died on Wednesday at her home near the park, in S\u00e3o Raimundo Nonato. She was 92.Marian Rodrigues, the park\u2019s director, said the cause was a heart attack.Dr. Guidon was perhaps best known in international scientific circles for her disputed findings that human beings arrived in the Americas 30,000 years ago or more. But few questioned her accomplishments in tracking down and preserving hundreds of millennia-old rock paintings in a semiarid, cactus-studded, impoverished corner of Piau\u00ed state.In 1979, at her insistence, the Brazilian government made the area a national park, and in 1991, again largely because of her, UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency, declared it a World Heritage site. She then became instrumental in the creation of two museums nearby: The Museum of the American Man, which opened in 1996, and the Museum of Nature, in 2018. And she had an outsize role in attracting investment to the town, leading to a new airport and a federal university campus and to vastly improved public education in the region.\u201cThe best way to preserve the paintings was to preserve the surroundings, and to preserve the surroundings, you had to provide resources for the people,\u201d Antoine Lourdeau, a French archaeologist who worked with Dr. Guidon on and off for about a decade starting in 2006, said in an interview. \u201cI don\u2019t think most archaeologists are conscious of the social implications of their own work.\u201dCave paintings in the Serra da Capivara National Park. Dr. Guidon tracked down and preserved hundreds of millennia-old rock paintings in a semiarid, cactus-studded, impoverished corner of Piau\u00ed state.Daniel Berehulak for The New York TimesIn 1979, at Dr. Guidon\u2019s insistence, the Brazilian government made the area where she had been excavating a national park, and in 1991, again largely because of her, UNESCO declared it a World Heritage site. Daniel Berehulak for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29437,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29435"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29438,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29435\/revisions\/29438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}