Rock Art, Inherited Landscapes And Human Populations In Southern Patagonia

CHARLIN, JUDITH AND LUIS A. BORRERO

A Companion to Rock Art

Willey Blackwell

Año: 2010;

The mapping of human populations on the landscape is a difficult task at best. To achieve this goal all kinds of evidences should be used, including importantly rock art. There are different frameworks under which this can be done. We choose to work with the inherited landscape perspective. This perspective is focused on changes introduced in the environment by human populations, and how these changes are part of the heritage received by later generations. In some aspects this perspective does not differ much from those focused on the temporality of the landscape. We emphasize aspects related with the distribution of rock art motifs, and use that information -together with other markers- to discuss the identification of prehistoric human populations in southern Patagonia.