Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:20:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 GerluziaOAA_ate_cap2.pdf: 1626394 bytes, checksum: 982f8d6f65fa5e731d0674f719896bf8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-04-26 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / Along their existence, through of the millenniuns, the Man registers, one way or another, their saga. One in those registration ways is the rupestrian art. Through the rupestrian art the Prehistory is brought even us, portraying in images the daily ritualist and magic of the Man, in scenes that show, among other, their cults and also their daily hard work. The Man is imposed, while registering of their existence, starting from the moment in that he is capable to leave their marks through the transformation that attributes to the Nature; also for the produced interferences and for the cultural singularities that themselves were constituted before the period of the alphabetical writing. In an artifice of duplicating utensils and in the sense of representing animals and to himself own, he delegated us a communicative system whose contexts and details were - and it continue being - an enigma to be deciphered. Starting from this argument, the research has for objective to understand the daily and the history of cultural groups that they preceded us, taking as base the reading of the rupestrian paintings found at the located archeological ranches in the Area of Serid?, more specifically in the Complexo Xique-xique, close to the Municipal district of Carna?ba dos Dantas, distant 220 kilometers of Natal, the capital of Rio Grande do Norte State / Ao longo de sua exist?ncia, atrav?s dos mil?nios, o ser humano registra, de uma forma ou de outra, sua saga. Uma dessas formas de registro ? a arte rupestre. Atrav?s da arte rupestre a Pr?-Hist?ria ? trazida at? n?s, retratando em imagens o cotidiano ritual?stico e m?gico do ser humano, em cenas que mostram, entre outros, seus cultos e tamb?m sua labuta di?ria. O ser humano se imp?e, enquanto registro de sua exist?ncia, a partir do momento em que ? capaz de deixar suas marcas atrav?s da transforma??o que atribui ? Natureza; tamb?m pelas interfer?ncias produzidas e pelas singularidades culturais que se constitu?ram antes do per?odo da escrita alfab?tica. Num artif?cio de duplicar utens?lios e no sentido de representar animais e a si pr?prio, nos legou um sistema comunicativo cujos contextos e detalhes foram e continuam sendo um enigma a ser decifrado. A partir deste argumento, a pesquisa tem por objetivo compreender o cotidiano e a hist?ria de grupos culturais que nos antecederam, tomando como base a leitura das pinturas rupestres encontradas nos s?tios arqueol?gicos localizados na Regi?o do Serid?, mais especificamente no Complexo Xique-xique, pr?ximo ao munic?pio de Carna?ba dos Dantas, distante 220 quil?metros de Natal, capital do Rio Grande do Norte