Digging the topology of rock art in northwestern Patagonia

Vargas, Fernando Emmanuel; Lanata, José Luis; Abramson, Guillermo; Kuperman, M. N.; Fiore, Dánae

doi:10.1093/comnet/cnz033

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“…Additionally, preliminary rock art results show similar trends in relation to mobility patterns observed from the obsidian analysis (Vargas et al 2019). Oxygen isotope values and grave goods from burials in La Pampa province suggest the presence of individuals that spent their lives in settings across the Andes (Barberena et al 2018).…”

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Sources of obsidian artefacts, exchange networks and landscape use in Auca Mahuida (Neuquén, north‐western Patagonia)

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We present the results of XRF analysis for 59 obsidian samples from 11 archaeological sites in Auca Mahuida region, Northeastern Neuquén, Argentina. The results indicate that several obsidian sources were utilized; however, the intensities of their exploitation were variable.Strong differences appear between the Colorado river basin, characterised by a low variability of obsidian groups from northern Neuquén, the Auca volcano, with a low variability of obsidian groups but from local sources located north and southwards from the study area; and along Bajo del Añelo, which presents a high variability of obsidian groups from several local and nonlocal sources. The pattern recorded fit different mechanisms of access to the sources and conveyance of obsidian across the landscape. Two distinct paths of direct access are suggested

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Sources of obsidian artefacts, exchange networks and landscape use in Auca Mahuida (Neuquén, north‐western Patagonia)

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“…S1) ( 35 ). CH1 is the most notable place for pigment-based rock art production in northwestern Patagonia and neighbor areas of central-western Argentina and central Chile ( 22 , 38 , 39 ). The painted repertoire is formally exceptional with images depicting an outstanding variety of shapes, colors, and sizes, many of which are seldom found together (fig.…”

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Earliest directly dated rock art from Patagonia reveals socioecological resilience to mid-Holocene climate

Romero Villanueva,

Sepúlveda,

Cárcamo-Vega

et al. 2024

Sci. Adv.

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The timing for the evolution of the capacity to inscribe the landscape with rock art has global relevance. While this was an in-built capacity when Homo sapiens first colonized the Americas, the heterogeneous distribution of rock art shows that it was a facultative behavior arising under unknown socioecological conditions. Patagonia was the last region to be explored by humans. While its rock art is globally important, it remains largely undated by absolute methods. We report the earliest set of directly radiocarbon-dated rock art motifs from the archaeological site Cueva Huenul 1 (northwestern Patagonia, Argentina), starting at 8.2 thousand years before the present (ka B.P.), predating previous records by several millennia, and encompassing over 3 ka (~130 human generations). This mid-Holocene “rock art emergence” phase overlaps with extremely arid conditions and a human demographic stasis. We suggest that this diachronic rock art emerged as part of a resilient response to ecological stress by highly mobile and low-density populations.

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“…Se presentan también los resultados obtenidos para un conjunto de puntos distribuidos aleatoriamente en el espacio. ISSN 1852-060X (impreso) / ISSN 1852-4826 (electrónico) sitios con arte rupestre también se encuentran en áreas con valores relativamente elevados de potencial para la movilidad, coincidiendo con el importante rol que se les atribuye en la producción y circulación de información en el norte neuquino (Cúneo, 2010;Fernandez, 1978;Vega Álvarez, 2019;Vargas et al, 2020). En este sentido, son destacables las similitudes observadas en los motivos presentes de estos sitios a escala regional, en los que predominan los motivos grabados y no figurativos, y la existencia de un número alto de motivos compartidos -incluidas líneas paralelas, figuras de simetría axial, figuras adosadas y cruciformes-, sugiriendo el uso de un código visual compartido entre áreas de veranada e invernada (Romero Villanueva, 2021).…”

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Conectividad estacional del paisaje y el registro arqueológico del norte de Neuquén (Noroeste de Patagonia)

D’Abramo¹,

Gobbo²,

Pérez³

et al. 2023

Rev. Mus. Antrop.

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El movimiento de los organismos a través del paisaje resulta de la interacción entre las propiedades estructurales y características que determinan su capacidad de movimiento, generando patrones de conectividad particulares para cada ambiente y especie. El norte de Neuquén presenta una alta heterogeneidad espacio-temporal en variables climáticas y ambientales. El objetivo de este trabajo es modelar la conectividad potencial entre áreas de veranada e invernada, y evaluar los factores que influyeron en el uso del espacio de las poblaciones humanas prehistóricas en la región. Con este fin generamos expectativas a partir del modelado de las áreas potenciales de circulación en la actualidad y luego evaluamos las expectativas generadas con la distribución espacial de sitios arqueológicos. Esta aproximación actualística permitió generar modelos de circulación que mostraron la existencia de dos corredores principales con dirección noroeste-sudeste. Los resultados obtenidos también indican que el modelo generado muestra un buen ajuste a la ubicación de diferentes tipos de sitios arqueológicos. La aproximación seguida en este trabajo mostró que las variables topográficas y ambientales resultaron útiles para generar expectativas sólidas acerca de las áreas en las que podrían haberse emplazado las principales rutas de movilidad de la región durante el Holoceno tardío.

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Digging the topology of rock art in northwestern Patagonia

Cited by 10 publications

References 25 publications

Sources of obsidian artefacts, exchange networks and landscape use in Auca Mahuida (Neuquén, north‐western Patagonia)

Sources of obsidian artefacts, exchange networks and landscape use in Auca Mahuida (Neuquén, north‐western Patagonia)

Earliest directly dated rock art from Patagonia reveals socioecological resilience to mid-Holocene climate

Conectividad estacional del paisaje y el registro arqueológico del norte de Neuquén (Noroeste de Patagonia)

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