{"id":556055,"date":"2025-07-17T10:25:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=556055"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:25:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:25:15","slug":"prehistoric-representations-of-animals-in-the-state-of-sao-paulo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/prehistoric-representations-of-animals-in-the-state-of-sao-paulo\/","title":{"rendered":"Prehistoric representations of animals in the state of S\u00e3o Paulo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Valentina Tong<\/span>Animal painted at the Gruta do \u00cdndio archaeological site in Anal\u00e2ndia, S\u00e3o PauloValentina Tong<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

Rock art has been found in several states in Brazil, but rarely in S\u00e3o Paulo. Recent research revealed that Indigenous people who occupied the region before European colonization painted and engraved images of birds, reptiles, crustaceans, and mammals in at least nine locations in the state that are currently classified as archaeological sites. The researchers classified images at a total of 58 locations, where they took high-resolution photographs and processed them to create three-dimensional models to digitally preserve this heritage for future generations<\/a>. The animals were pictured in red, black, and white paint, in various positions: deer are represented from the side, birds from the front or side, and reptiles and crustaceans from the front only. \u201cThrough these analyses, we can observe similarities between rock art in various regions of S\u00e3o Paulo State and suggest hypotheses about the circulation of ideas and people in a territory,\u201d says archaeologist Mar\u00edlia Perazzo, a postdoctoral researcher at the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology of the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (MAE-USP). The biggest problem faced at the sites is deterioration caused by humans, such as graffiti and fires, or by natural phenomena, such as the erosion of rocks (Boletim do Museu Paraense Em\u00edlio Goeldi<\/em>, November 4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Recent research in S\u00e3o Paulo identified 58 archaeological sites with rock art depicting animals","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[202],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-556055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-archaeology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556100,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556055\/revisions\/556100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556055"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=556055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}