Written on the wall.

Inscriptions of historical times in Casa de Piedra de Roselló site, southwestern Chubut, Patagonia Argentina

Authors

  • Lucía Alejandra Gutiérrez Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Buenos Aires Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano (INAPL) Argentina e mail: luciagutierrez94@gmail.com
  • María Laura Casanueva Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano (INAPL) Argentina e mail: mlauracasanueva@gmail.com
  • Analía Castro Esnal Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano (INAPL) Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Buenos Aires Argentina e mail: analiacastro@gmail.com

Keywords:

Rock art, Patagonia, Recent history , Indigenous people and settlers , Microhistory

Abstract

Casa de Piedra de Roselló (CP) is an archaeological site with rock art located on southwestern Chubut in an ecotonal forest-steppe area, a few kilometers away from the Republic of Chile’ s international border. The site consists of a main cave (CP1) and two other adjacent smaller shelters (CP2 and CP3), located at an upper elevation. Excavations at CP1 have provided abundant archaeological material from nine stratigraphic levels with chronologies that range from ca. 9,000 years calibrated AP to the 20th century. CP’s rock art accounts for types of motifs assignable to the three great periods of the Holocene, as well as to recent historical moments. This paper presents the analysis and interpretations of the historical inscriptions from 19th and 20th centuries. The superimpositions of historical motifs over pre-Hispanic rock art representations warn about the diachronic transcendence of this space and its possible reappropriation and resignification, and in turn, constitute a line of evidence that is approached from a microhistorical approach.

 

ARK CAICYT: https://id.caicyt.gov.ar/ark:/s16688090/rzr2ihib6

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Published

2022-10-10

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Gutiérrez, L. A., Casanueva, M. L., & Castro Esnal, A. (2022). Written on the wall. : Inscriptions of historical times in Casa de Piedra de Roselló site, southwestern Chubut, Patagonia Argentina. Andes, 33(1). Retrieved from http://170.210.203.22/index.php/Andes/article/view/2464

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Vol. 33 No. 1 (2022)

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