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Potencial informacional de divulgação científica das pinturas rupestres em Monte Alegre, Pará
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-03-31) FERREIRA, Markene Mirella Costa; PEREIRA, Edithe da Silva; http://lattes.cnpq.br/7300782839552849; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4498-7033; SANTOS JUNIOR, Roberto Lopes dos; http://lattes.cnpq.br/3355963647616547
The information production and communication process belongs to Information Science interest. Scientific divulgation or popularization is a concept related to the scientific production process, in which the scientific community has an interest in disseminating its activities through a simple and intelligible language to the lay public. Bearing in mind that the action of disseminating science has a social role, with regard to the construction of people's critical sense through information, the research aimed to demonstrate the informational potential of scientific dissemination of the archaeological heritage of the Parque Estadual Monte Alegre (Pará) represented by cave paintings, in the perspective of the valorization and preservation of these remains, considering them, in a preliminary way, as relevant sources of information from the memory records of the Amazon region. Besides to identifying the documentary and informational potential of cave paintings, based on document definitions (expanding it beyond written records), based on the theories of Documentation by Bradford (1961), Otlet ([1934], 2018) and Briet (2016). It had as general objective: To investigate the scientific divulgation about the rock paintings located in the Monte Alegre State Park (Pará), in the perspective of the preservation of these vestiges. And as specific objectives: a) Verify the main initiatives used in the dissemination of the results of archaeological research on the rock paintings of the Monte Alegre State Park, as well as the respective types of initiatives, characteristics and subjects engaged in this work; b) Identify the scientific production on the rock painting of the archaeological sites in Monte Alegre, Pará; c) Point out the informational and documentary aspects of cave paintings. A qualitative and descriptive research was carried out, exploratory and bibliographic featured, using sources of information for theoretical support and collection of materials and instruments used in the dissemination of rock paintings to the lay public. The results showed that the scientific dissemination of rock paintings in Monte Alegre, Pará, has a significant informational potential, being promoted through an expressive number of initiatives, whose main characteristics are: institutional, educational and artistic-cultural. It was verified that the rock painting is a document with specific aspects to its support distinct from the traditional documents of written texts. It was also found that scientific production provides a basis for the creation of products and practices for the dissemination of these testimonies. It was concluded that the role of scientific dissemination in the process of transferring information to the population is essential for the preservation of rock representations in Monte Alegre, since information is a resource of significant potential for social transformation.