Pinturas rupestres y estructuras de piedra en las Sierras de Curicó

MADRID, PATRICIA; POLITIS, GUSTAVO; POIRÉ, DANIEL G.

INTERSECCIONES EN ANTROPOLOGíA

Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales

Lugar: Olavarría; Año: 2000 vol. 1 p. 35 - 53

In the Curicó hills (also known as the La China hill), in the Olavarría district, rock art has been discovered on walls and in shelters in the quartzite tabular outcrops of the Balcarce Formation. The paintings are in three sectors and consist of lineal and geometrical motifs painted in red. On the slope of the hill, two stone circular structures were detected, and on the top of the opposite hill an oval stone structure was also found. In this article, the characteristics of this archaeological material are summarised and the results from test pits, excavated in one of these structures is presented. The contemporaneity among the findings is examined as well as its possible tehuelche affiliation. Finally, the symbolic and religion dimensions of the Late Pampean indigenous societies are explored.