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| | Reinaldo Morales Jr., Ph.D. Dissertation - Conclusion |
 | | B.C.) world of the Serra da Capivara hunter-gatherers with the ethno-history of living populations from nearby regions, it will be proposed that there was most likely a continuity of certain ideologies and a corresponding series of social innovations that provide a reasonable bridge between the rock art and the living artsformally, cognitively, and functionally. |
 | | B.C. ; perhaps until the advent of established agricultural communities at the end of the last millennium B.C. If the social "evolution" was reflected in the rock art (as Pessis proposed), then the culmination of that evolution, the establishment of the current seasonal ceremonial cycles, should also be reflected. |
 | | This is merely a corollary case reinforcing the revised dates proposed for the Serra Branca, Salitre, and Angelim Styles; if, that is, the similar environmental changes and subsequent changes in adaptive strategies had some influence on the genesis of the rock art styles. |
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