The Itatiaia National Park, in Serra da Mantiqueira, revealed images of the first rock paintings of Rio de Janeiro, this Wednesday (2). You UNAVIRED TRACTIONS FOR THE STATE They show human occupation for thousands of years in the region.
The paintings were found at 2,350 meters of altitude in the newly named Archaeological Site Needles, identified in late 2023. The images were discovered by an FPark unicentiary that was photographing lilies at lunchtime and climbed one of the stones.
The records have geometric shapes, zoomorphs (shaped like animals) and two colors-shades of red and yellow-yellow. Between the drawings, a resembles a lizard .
The features are similar to the paintings of the São Francisco Tradition, found between Minas Gerais and Bahia. If the relationship is confirmed, the registration will be the south of this tradition in Brazil – which indicates the cultural connections between indigenous peoples from different regions, according to the researchers.
At the oldest archaeological level in this area, a dating revealed 3,030 years before (AP) . It is possible that the authors of Itatiaia paintings belonged to the same “cultural wave”, according to the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio).
Experts should determine the exact age of paintings in the coming months. The oldest ever found have about 51,200 years and are located on an Indonesian island.
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