Interpretative Approaches in Rock Art and Geoglyphs of the Atacama Desert: Between Theories and Methods

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This study reviews the range of interpretative approaches that have delineated rock art research in the Atacama Desert, which has been mainly informed by ethnohistorical, ethnographic, and landscape archaeology perspectives. We focus on the role that prevailing Andean archaeological theories have played in the questions raised by archaeologists investigating rock art and geoglyphs, and discuss how these theories are connected to the suite of methods employed to answer such questions. The main ideas, questions, and theoretical and methodological frames of reference that have been used are assessed, and we discuss the place of rock art and geoglyphs within the context of major problems of the discipline at a regional and global level.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research

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Abstract Id(s): 40268.0