Abstract

ROMERO, Guadalupe  and  RE, Anahí. Rock art from northeast Neuquén province (northern Patagonia, Argentina): First spatial and temporal trends. Comechingonia [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.1, pp.73-92. ISSN 1851-0027.

This article presents a first analysis of the rock art registered in the Pehuenches department, Neuquén province (northern Patagonia). The possibility of considering these rock art motifs as symbolic space markers is debated from a biogeographical point of view by evaluating them in relation to spaces of different ecological and geographical properties. This information is preliminary compared in a wider scale doing an analysis of the published data from nearby regions. Also the chronological trend of these representations is reviewed. Finally, the discussion of the role of information and its circulation in the organization of human populations that inhabitated the region in the past, is presented.

Keywords : Rock art; Information circulation; Biogeography; Late Holocene.