The Rock-Art of Central-West Brazil: New Studies from Chapada dos Guimarães / MT
Author(s): Carolina Guedes
Year: 2018
Summary
A new project carried out in the region of the Rio Vermelho / São Lourenço river basin in the central-western region of Brazil started in 2016. This project focus on the studies of the initial stages of the establishment of the hunters gathers groups in this region. It is intended through excavations, surveys and research in rock art to show patterns of the peoples who inhabited that region. The first systematic field surveys within this project, entitled "Archeology in the Pantanal region" recorded a total of 12 rock-art sites. Here it will be presented the first systematic approaches in these sites, considering the character of the diversity of rock art in this region, still little explored.
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The Rock-Art of Central-West Brazil: New Studies from Chapada dos Guimarães / MT. Carolina Guedes. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 443040)
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Geographic Keywords
South America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -93.691; min lat: -56.945 ; max long: -31.113; max lat: 18.48 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 21165