Environmental Representations in Rocky Records in National Parks in Southeastern Piauí – Brazil

At the Brazilian parks - Serra da Capivara and Serra das Confusões (Piauí, Brazil), as well as in their adjacent areas, there is a wide concentration of archaeological sites with rock paintings that subsidize several elements of the first human occupations in America as they show and represent many features of their existence and daily life in the multiple ecosystems in the region. Those representations have diversified attributions, which reveal that the daily life of the first inhabitants in the territory was very proactive and dynamic, what could supply indicators that there was history, education, socialization of practices and knowledge, several types of communication, relationships with other ways of life as well as traces of religiosity in ancient times in the history of Brazil. It is possible to recognize in the paintings – to date the numerous phytomorphic and zoomorphic rupestrian registers and their possible interpretations – non-existing species in the region currently and others that are totally extinct; some are so well produced so it is even possible to recognize the gender of the animal through the presence of antlers and other determining features of the species. From analysis and identifications of prehistoric environmental memories that are connected to deeper studies about the flora and fauna in the rock paintings found in the regions that surround the parks of the study, as well as the collection and condensation of information found in the literature, this article aims, besides stablishing episodes of the relationship human/ nature, reconstructs traces of the environmental conditions that are relevant to the period when they were performed, and then becoming an environmental indicator variable of past time.
