Rock paintings of mammals at Central, Bahia, Brazil

Abstract

Rock paintings of mammals have been studied in five of the 243 localities contained within the 270,000 km 2 Archeological Region of Central, Bahia. From features of external morphology, it was possible to recognize II mammals represented in the paintings: for five , to attribute the species; another five , the genera; and, for one, merely lhe family. This study aims lO underline lhe imporlance of prehistoric man 's conlribulion, by way of these rock paintings, to our knowledge of the mammals depicled , both taxonomically and in terms of their distribution within the bounds of the Project in the State of Bahia.