Aventuras de Piteco® e os Grafismos Primitivos de Iraquara: Um Recurso Didático-Pedagógico para Atividades de Educação Ambiental

Abstract

Adventures of PITECO® and the Primitives Graphics of Iraquara: A Didactic-Teaching Resource for Activities of Environmental Education, protects and combines the scientific nature of the academy and the spontaneity of comics, integrating figures used in the textual composition, harmonizing its various aspects with the explicit intention of producing an argument that interacts with the formality of the academic requirements needed, along with the prolific and innovative nature, essential and expected in the graduate program which is about Interactivity, Culture and Design. This thesis aims to compare the rock art aspects selected in the archeological sites of Lapa do Sol, Torrinha and Abrigo Santa Marta, in the municipality of Iraquara, in the region of Chapada Diamantina in State of Bahia, using pieces of the proposed narrative in the Mauricio de Sousa’s comic books, through the character of PITECO®. The representations of the adventures of PITECO® evoke scientific content information in the prehistoric context and they are a true expression of artistic freedom. The research methodology was based on the selection of episodes of the character PITECO® that allow the linking with images of rock art representations selected in locus in the archaeological sites. The results achieved through the connection between the comic books of the character PITECO® and rock art showed that through history, both mobilized to fulfill their intentions. Nowadays they keep on perform their roles: to transmit their massages. In past years, intrepid humans faced the titanic task and changed the history with their art. Another important finding is the potentiality of enough didactic-teaching resources and playfulness to contribute in learning as motivator element in the environmental education for educational communities of Basic Education.