Social interaction and rock art styles in the Atacama Desert (northern Chile)
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: In this ground-breaking study the author looks at three consecutive styles of rock art, placing them in the social context in which they were produced. Although necessarily succinct, the argument shows that as hierarchy increased and functioned over longer distances, rock art could perform as the organ of pastoralist authority, or the badge of marginalised hunters or, most often, as the imagery of consensus masking social inequality.
Source: Antiquity
Author: Francisco Gallardo
Institution: Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2205241164