Abstract

VILLANUEVA, Guadalupe Romero. ROCK ARTAND HUMANBIOGEOGRAPHYIN NORTHERNNEUQUÉN (PATAGONIA): CONCEPTUAL GUIDELINES FOR A MULTI-SCALAR APPROACH ON VISUALCOMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION EXCHANGE. Relaciones [online]. 2021, vol.46, n.2, pp.71-80. ISSN 0325-2221.

A biogeographic-based multiscale perspectivefor the systematic archaeological study ofvisual communication and information exchange processes through rock art is presented. Operationaldefinitions of the conceptual components of the approach (rock art, human biogeography,multiscalarity) are provided. It also discusses the role ofdifferent analytical elements andframeworks(biogeographic models, internodal studies, social geography) that work as starting points andstructuring axes of research questions on these processes in the past. Additionally, geographical,temporal and socio-demographic aspects of past human organization of particular interest to thisproposal are also summarized. We review the multiscale results obtained from their application innorthern Neuquén in order to discuss the possibilities of the approach for modeling the roles andinformation types transmitted through rock art within the communicational dynamics that mobilegroups of northwestern Patagonia deployed over the landscape during the Holocene.

Keywords : rock art images; systematization; formal methods; multiple spatial scales; landscape marking.

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