Brazil before Brazil; "Africa came from Brazil"; Phoenician finds up and down the Americas

SUMMARYBrazil before Brazil; "Africa came from Brazil"; Phoenician finds up and down the Americas (Nov 3, 2026).
RECORD, "Brasil" before Brazil: an Atlantic island labeled "Bracile" appears on Angelino Dulcert's chart around 1325, west of Ireland, 175 years before Cabral reached Brazil (1500). Bristol ships sailed to find "Brasil" in 1480 and 1481. Pedro de Ayala's letter (1498) says Cabot's land had been "discovered in the past by the men from Bristol who found Brasil." The island stayed on maps (near Galway) until 1865. The official origin of Brazil's name is brazilwood dye; the island's etymology is "uncertain."

PATTERNa land called Brasil, across the Atlantic, was on European charts and being sailed to before 1492; Columbus's Galway sighting (P171) is the same coast.
RECORD, Africa and Brazil were one land: Brazil's northeast bulge fits into Africa's Gulf of Guinea; both were part of Gondwana and split about 100–140 million years ago (plate tectonics)

DISPUTEDNiède Guidon dated hearths and tools at Pedra Furada, Serra da Capivara (Piauí), to about 30,000–50,000 years ago and proposed people came by sea from Africa; many archaeologists dispute the dates. RECORD + Disputed: Walter Neves read Luzia's skull (Lagoa Santa, about 11,500 years old) as African/Australo-Melanesian in features; 2018 ancient-DNA studies found Lagoa Santa people genetically Native American, with a faint Australasian signal in some Amazonian groups

LENS (Tito)the original "Africa" and "Africans" came from Brazil; the Gondwana fit is the land itself telling the story (Lens; OPEN). Note: Rome named its province "Africa" after the Afri people near Carthage (P160); the word was applied to the continent later.
PHOENICIAN FINDS IN THE AMERICAS (all Disputed, map them): the Paraíba inscription (Brazil, 1872; Cyrus Gordon defended it in 1968; most call it a hoax); Pedra da Gávea, Rio (marks read as Phoenician; geologists say erosion); Ludwig Schwennhagen, Antiga História do Brasil (1928), on Phoenicians at Sete Cidades, Piauí; Pedra do Ingá, Paraíba (petroglyphs, claimed Phoenician by some); Bat Creek, Tennessee (P170); Los Lunas Decalogue Stone, New Mexico (Paleo-Hebrew); Bourne Stone, Massachusetts; Grave Creek Stone, West Virginia; the Corvo coins (P172). Next: a full list with locations for Chronoseer seed 20.