FERREIRA, Niara Nice de Sousa.
Abstract:
The fault of archaeological researches in region that encompass the present study, as
well as the interest in the theme discussed, moved its realization. The organicity of the
research lead itself in a manner which, in its first chapter was constructed a generalized
overview of the theoretical schools that guided the archeology in its scientific trajectory,
giving to reader the possibility to become acquaint with the concepts that lead this study,
concluding with the archaeological researches’ development in Brazil. In the second
chapter, we explain the archaeological paths has trodden in Brazilian’s northeast, tapering
the discussions about the rock farms, the surveys, the printing industry and its theoreticalmethodological
implications in building of an authentic ensemble of knowledge of the prehistory
in this region from Brazil. In the third moment of work, we relate about the rock
register in various approaches, listing the classificatory proposals and the printing
characteristics used for their elaboration, we discuss about the studies of printing industry
from Paraíba, more specifically the university of the gravures, highlighting the strong
presence of Itacoatiras. In the fourth chapter, we conclude with some theoretical
discussions about the interpretation of the rock register. In this moment of the research is
realized the cataloguing of the rock gravures of Pau de Leite’s farm in Pombal, making an
overview of the printing characteristics of these records from the forms identified and
the desires raised in the intriguing study of this graphic corpus.