Rock Art in NW Patagonia

V. SCHEINSOHN; S. LEONARDT; F.RIZZO

Sacramento

Congreso; 76th SAA Annual Meeting; 2011

Society for American Archaeology

The conspicuous presence of rock art in Andean NW Patagonia, a region where archaeological visibility is an outstanding problem given the density of forest cover, has put us to study rock art in an intensively way. For the study area, some authors had argued that in Late Holocene times, rock art is actually reflecting the arising of territorial circumscription and ethnicity demarcation. But we had also considered other kind of information transmitted by means of this evidence. In this paper we will discuss and evaluate these hypotheses by means of cladistics and endemism analysis and bring new results obtained