Abstract

Rock art and technological choices during the transition towards food production in Argentine Southern Puna (ca. 5.500-1.500 BP). Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2018, vol.11, n.2, pp.59-72. ISSN 1852-060X.

This paper analyzes the changes observed in the choices related to rock art production, seeking to interpret those modifications within the frame of a broader socio-historical process, the transition to food production. With that goal in mind, we worked with the totality of archaeological sites and rock art motifs corresponding to such temporality located in the micro-region of Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca. In this way, we were able to define that certain change factors, considered important for the research of modifications in different social action spheres during this same lapse, also played a relevant role in rock art production. Nevertheless, and more importantly, it was the consideration of the used rock art production techniques, the analysis of different variables both at a site and motif level (emplacement and visibility characteristics, stylistic modalities, types of surfaces, classes and quantities of motifs), and their examination within a broader context which allowed us to perform a more adjusted interpretation of the observed long term trends. We think in this paper as a first approach towards a problematic that, so far, has only been addressed tangentially, highlighting the novel, yet preliminary character, of this proposal.

Keywords : Rock Art; Transition; Production Techniques; Choices; Argentine Puna.

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