Among bushes, streams, and hills: a comparative approach to the morphological, technical and spatial diversity of the petroglyphs from southern Santiago del Estero, Argentina
This work analyzes comparatively six sites with petroglyphs located in the Ambargasta and Ramírez de Velasco hills, in southern Santiago del Estero. The morphological and technical diversity of the petroglyphs, their size and treatment, the spatial relationships between motifs and the location of th...
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Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Arqueologia/article/view/14376 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=arqueo&d=14376_oai |
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| Sumario: | This work analyzes comparatively six sites with petroglyphs located in the Ambargasta and Ramírez de Velasco hills, in southern Santiago del Estero. The morphological and technical diversity of the petroglyphs, their size and treatment, the spatial relationships between motifs and the location of the panels in the broader landscape are considered. Unlike previous studies that highlighted the homogeneity of this repertoire of images, the analysis shows that the engravings from southern Santiago del Estero are diverse, both at the inter-hill level and within each hill. The diversity found was evaluated in the context of the petroglyphs from other sectors of the Pampean Sierra, such as the Northwestern hills of Córdoba, the Ancasti hill (Catamarca) and the valleys of Northwest Argentina. The results show two situations. The first involves motifs widely shared on the supraregional scale (footprints, circumferences, dots and lines) linked, at least in their subject matter, with hunter-gatherer societies. In the second situation, these images are no longer so predominant and occur among other types of motifs that provide a local signature to the places. However, the identity ties with the hunter-gatherer origin of the populations were never lost through this technique. |
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