Rock art stations of Guaniguanico mountain range, Cuba: an analysis of the evaluation and diagnosis of environmental impacts

Abstract

In the marks of the research project ‘Evaluation and diagnosis of the archaeological and sociocultural patrimony of Cuba’, developed by a group of the Department of Archaeology of the Cuban Institute of Anthropology (ICAN), an expedition was made joined to members of the Cuban Rock Art Research Group (GCIAR) to evaluate the environmental impacts that are affecting the rock drawings of Pinar del Río province. Seventeen stations of 37 in that area were randomly selected to apply the evaluation and diagnosis methodology of environmental impacts that is applied by ICAN. The applied method allows classifying the natural and anthropic actions for the best search of solutions to eliminate the damage, or the practice of palliative actions to stop, in some way, its deterioration. So, the actions and impacts that affect in a deeper way the state of conservation of this Cuban important heritage are defined, enumerated and characterized in this paper.