Ilha de Santa Catarina

 

In Florianopolis itself, we have catalogued more of 20 Rupestrian Art sites - they are predominantly geometric but there are some exceptions . One exception is the style we call primitive geometry that features on the beaches of Ingleses and Galheta and is common in the state of Rio Grande do Sul - sketchy lines traced straight and occasionally parallel of a length of between 10 and 30cms. The second exception, that would fit within a realist style, consists of an enormous fish fully engraved into granite, 'blacked-out' to form a silhouette without a single straight line - a shape totally different from all others. Another exception is the emergence of cupulas, in the most several sizes and ways. Also other exception is what called of human footprints (footprints), in several sizes, discoveries in Santinho, Tip of the Gravatá, Island of Campeche and Pântano of the South.It was also found a disk solar engraving in a rock, that is mark solsticial, similar the other existent in Laguna. All the markings on the Island of Santa Catarina, with but one exception, are upon diabasio rocks and always facing the cardinal points and their divisions. Spread over the island's many beaches and hillocks, there exists a great variety of other types of archaeological sites, such as sambaquis, lithic stations, shelters below rocks, rock monuments such as dolmens and astronomy observatories - this rich feast is a really incredible eco-touristic menu that the local authorities have not yet served up. In our project "Eco-Tourism in Barra da Lagoa and the Reserva da Galheta", 64 archaeological sites were registered, exemplifying the wealth of archaeology on hand on the island. In our book "Rupestrian Art in Florianopolis", edited in 1994, that is currently being revised and updated for its conversion into a CD-Rom, the reader can observe in photographic detail all the Rupestrian Art sites and the engravings and markings, as catalogued by we researchers in the more than 20 years, on the Island of Santa Catarina and its surrounding 'satellite' islands, Ilha do Arvoredo, Ilha das Aranhas, Ilha do Campeche and Ilha da Irma de Fora amongst them.