Distribution of mask-like forms design in rock art of centre west of Argentina and small north of Chile: style, identity and landscape

Abstract

Rock art analysis had made of Tunduqueral site locate in Uspallata’s valley, NW of Mendoza, Argentina, during farmland-pottery early-late period (4th and 10th centuries AC).

Based on the relationship between art, landscape and theoretical concepts of technological styles we expect to understand the ritual material by the comparative analysis of mask-like forms in Tunduqueral’ hill with the San Juan representations: Los Colorados de Barreal, Quebrada de Aguas Blancas, Villa Dominguito in Sierra Pie de Palo y Quebrada La Chilca, and Small North of Chile: Valle El Encanto (Ovalle), Llano–Pabellón de San Agustín (Valle del río Hurtado Superior) y Río Grande (Cuenca del río Limarí).

We consider the designs recurrence of both Andes places have been showing linkers (ties community, kinship and neighbourhood) between the groups whose took up the macroregion had persisted and had recreated, but over time they had different significations and incorporated in different politic, economic and ideological contexts. This similarity would speak about the strategy visual communication between fairways points by symbols codes community.