Universidade Federal do Piauí

Event: X Simpósio Internacional de Arte Rupestre

Location: UFPI - CINE TEATRO

Date: 21/07/2014

From July 21 to 25, the Federal University of Piauí holds the X International Symposium on Rupestrian Art (SIAR) and V Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Rupestrian Art (ABAR). With the theme "Rupestrian Art: research and social inclusion", the event wil have the participation of ten national and international renowned researchers.

There will be conferences, focusing on themes related to universality and conservation of rupestrian art and samples of researches on rupestrian art, with social inclusion. The researchers', professors' and graduates' works will be presented as oral communications, posters or videos, in ten different thematic sessions, such as archeometry, conservation, tourism, social inclusion, documentation, analysis and new discoveries developed in different continents.

According to the Archaeology professor and Director of the Nature Sciences Center (CCN), Dr. Maria Conceição Lage, the event aims at promoting the junction of these approaches and also contribute to an increasing dialogue between academy and society.