The majority of sites and regions with rock art worldwide have been re-used throughout
different periods of time. Sometimes a large number of motifs were executed in a brief space …

This paper is part of a wider research whose aims are to understand and improve our
knowledge about rock art production at the Central Plateau (Santa Cruz province) in …

Three different levels of variability of rock art can be analytically distinguished and studied in
terms of their social significance: visual, spatial and technological. While the first two have …

This chapter develops a theoretical framework focused on the materiality of rock art. It
argues against a Cartesian ontology that locates art in an exclusively ideal/symbolic realm …

This paper aims to link the production of rock paintings in Los Toldos (Argentina) to the
human use of the locality in the context of the long term process of the peopling of …

This article analyses a sample of petroglyphs from the Central Patagonian Plateau which
are morphologically similar to animal and human prints and can be related to the middle/late …

Rock art is addressed in this chapter as material and practice, both being historically
situated. By comparing two sets of rock art from north-central Chile, rock paintings and …

The mapping of human populations and their demographic dynamics on the landscape is a
difficult task at best. To achieve this goal, all kinds of evidence should be used, including …

This paper presents the first results of surveys and systematic records of rock art in the
northern bank of Río Santa Cruz region (Santa Cruz province, Patagonia, Argentina). Firstly …

This book contains a series of selected papers presented at two symposia entitled'Scientific
study of rock art', one held in the IFRAO Congress of Rock Art in La Paz, Bolivia, in June …