As representaÃÃes zoomÃrficas na subtradiÃÃo seridÃ

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2003

RESUMO

This dissertation has the aim of asserting the relationship between the Seridà subtradition and the Nordeste Tradition of rock painting. It does so through the analysis of zoomorphic themes of long duration which are seen in three different aspects: the most important themes, the techniques used and the graphic form of presentation similar to the VÃrzea Grande sub-tradition. It also identifies those zoomorphic elements which are typical of the Seridà sub-tradition taking into account that this sub-tradition is a specific regional variation of the Nordeste Tradition. Thus a preliminary zoomorphic graphic profile was constructed. The choice of zoomorphic elements as one of the features that characterizes the Seridà sub-tradition deems the rock painting as a communication system that has information displayed in a hierarchical and preestablished way. In this system, the chosen animals and their integration into the pictorial representations represent cultural options taken by human groups through history. Besides they reflect their environment and the relationship between men and animals in a given time. With that aim, the existing knowledge about the rock paintings in the Nordeste Tradition was examined. The studies about the VÃrzea Grande sub-tradition in Piauà and the introductory studies in the Seridà sub-tradition in Rio Grande do Norte along with the analysis of the archeological context of the Seridà region were the most important ones and enabled a general view of what is known thus far. After, it was made a bibliographic exam of the works conduced by the archeologists NiÃde Guidon and Anne-Marie Pessis, who systematized the studies about rock paintings in PiauÃ, within the objective of particularizing the zoomorphic paintings seen as a part of the Nordeste Tradition pictorial set. The analysis of zoomorphic paintings in the Seridà sub-tradition began with the photographic registering of the Casa Santa, Mirador de Parelhas, Xique-Xique I and Xique- Xique II sites, located in the Seridà region in Rio Grande do Norte. They were chosen both for they represented the first references of the Seridà sub-tradition and by their pictorial density as well as for they had extensive overlapping areas that allowed a chronological display of the zoomorphic elements which was the case of the Casa Santa and Mirador de Parelhas sites. The standards used to compare the zoomorphic pictures were morphology, color, size, rock scenography and stratigraphy , the latter in the case of overlapping pictures, making clear the most important information to the development of this study. The sites were analyzed taking into account the persistence of the main zoomorphic themes of long duration and their analogy with the VÃrzea Grande sub-tradition. Within that scope the thematic, technical and graphic presentation similarities were seen as testimonies of the cultural relationship between the two sub-traditions and made possible to identify the characteristic options of the Seridà sub-tradition. The results of this research allowed to assert the existing relationship between the Seridà and the VÃrzea Grande sub-traditions through the zoomorphic themes of long duration that have been present since the oldest stratigraphic layers of overlapping pictures in the Seridà sub-tradition and enabled the construction of its preliminary zoomorphic profile which revealed indications of social changings in time and space

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rock paintings zoomorphs subtradiÃÃo seridà historia do brasil zoomorfos seridà subtradition registros rupestres

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