CARACTERIZAÇÃO DO POTENCIAL ARQUEOLÓGICO DO COMPLEXO ARQUEOLÓGICO DE PAULO AFONSO, BAHIA

Abstract

Rock art records have been an important evidence of human groups in Prehistory. Brazil, today, it’s considered the country with the greater concentration of archaeological sites with rock art records in the whole world. Thus, in the Northeastern region, there is a significant recurrence of sites with rock art in the archaeological complex of Paulo Afonso, located in the municipality of Paulo Afonso, Bahia. This paper aims to characterize the archaeological potential take into account the geoenvironment context of the region. The archaeological potential analysis is settled methodologically, in the state of art of the mainly researches developed in that region, once that the primarily motivation for this study is concentrated in the lack of data over the Paulo Afonso area and the heritage archaeological preservation inserted in that archaeological complex. In general, the intention of this study is to generate subsides for futures researches to seek to fill the lack of discussion about the prehistoric human occupation process in the São Francisco valley.