Narrativas sobre el arte rupestre en las sociedades cazadoras recolectoras del valle del río Ibáñez medio, Chile. Memoria, Agencia y Paisaje en la construcción de texturas territoriales.

Abstract

In this thesis, the results obtained from the recording of 29 rock art sites in the middle sector of the Ibáñez River, in the Aysén Region, Central Patagonia, Chile, are presented. Through the characterization of these sites, along with the analysis of the motifs, techniques, frequencies, and comparisons with the stylistic groups defined in the Pintura River area (Argentina), concepts such as landscape, agency, memory, and information exchange are addressed, aiming to expand the understanding of the behavior of the societies that inhabited this area during the Holocene._x000D_ In research related to rock art, there has been an interest focused on aspects such as style and chronological sequences. Therefore, analyzing the archaeological record as a set of interrelated motifs in a social context is essential. In this way, human occupations and their manifestations take on a social meaning, visualizing the landscape as a stage of interaction and assignment of meanings._x000D_ In the context of the middle Ibáñez River, the distribution of rock art sites suggests an intentional choice of places for painting. This highlights the intrinsic relationship between rock art and other everyday elements of those who inhabited the region. Despite the apparent limited stylistic variety, where hand motifs predominate, complemented by some zoomorphic and geometric designs, these could have had the function of delimiting territories. This underlines the complexity and richness of meanings that this type of manifestation entails, and it is through its study that a different perspective is sought to understand the societies that lived in this area. In this way, the conceptualization of a relational landscape and the connection with memory - individual and collective - emerge as fundamental aspects to interpret the link between the rock paintings and the identities of those who inhabited the middle valley of the Ibáñez River.

Date of Award	10 Jan 2024
Original language	Spanish
Supervisor	Andrés Rolando Troncoso Melendez (Director) & Laura Mameli Iriarte (Director)