Carved between Cartafuel and Coangue: Spatial Analysis of the Pasto Rock Art Sites of Carchi, Ecuador

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the social context of Andean prehispanic societies, petroglyphs constitute multivocal elements that stand out from the aggregates of material expressions of culture. As such, their condition as a cumulative of symbolic particularities and their contextualization in the intentional use of cultural space allows us to read them beyond iconography. The motifs variability in the petroglyphs of the province of Carchi, Ecuador, associated with the Pasto occupations (AD 750–1532), the seven altitudinal floors of the region, its hydrography and volcanoes, elucidate this intentionality. Therefore, through their regional sampling, and its subsequent multivariate analysis with the index as the semiotic component for the carved representations and the landscape as the unit of analysis; I seek to understand the petroglyphs beyond the icon and through their significance in human and nonhuman relationships.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Barbacoan World: Recognizing and Preserving the Unique Indigenous Cultural Developments of the Northern Andes   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38111.0