A Água em Contextos Culturais no Sertão

Referência ambiental na pré-história e culto religioso no presente

Abstract

The environmental conditions of aridity in the interior, from pre-history, human populations instigate different ways of living, interacting and mean nature. Water from pre-history has been presented as a reference displacement and favoritism occupational. It is noteworthy that other experiments may have been attributed to this natural element, in pre-history, however due to limitation of the material record, few contexts of socio-cultural leave records. At present, we can observe in the Fazenda São Francisco, where lies the rock art site namesake records of rock art, where the choice of location of residence of men and / or women of prehistory may have been due to the location, even near the water course. In the surroundings of this website, located even a chapel and a sculpture, which is developing the cult of San Francisco. In this context, a source of water, consumed materially and symbolically ritualized print new senses the presence of water in the backcountry.