“…In the mid‐20th century, rock art studies of the area were based on the interpretive field introducing comparative analyses (Berberián & Nielsen, 1985; Pedersen, 1961; Schobinger & Gradín, 1985) or functional hypotheses (González, 1977; Pedersen, 1961; Pérez Gollán, 1968). In the last decades, archaeological research in the area has focused on social practices, such as gathering and consumption of plants (Palmieri et al, 2018), Prehispanic agriculture (A. Recalde & López, 2017), analyses of malacological ornaments (Tissera et al, 2019), textile technologies (Tissera, 2018a), and sensorial studies (Tissera, 2018b). Rock art degradation studies recorded anthropic and natural damage on some rock shelters (Bolle, 1987) and processes related to sandstone tafoni formation and weathering (S. Herrero, 1999).…”