Antropologia

Estimad@s coleg@s

Nos es grato extender la invitación al V Encuentro de Arqueología del Centro Chile Argentina 2015 que se realizará en la Universidad Alberto Hurtado entre el 25 y 27 de Noviembre de 2015.

Hemos abierto un nuevo correo electrónico para que nos confirmen su asistencia: arqueologiacentro2015@gmail.com

Al igual que en años pasados no se incluirán presentaciones individuales, ni se solicitarán abstracts, sino que pedimos a los distintos equipos de investigación que confirmen su asistencia para dividir proporcionalmente el tiempo de exposición grupal.

El encuentro incluirá una salida a terreno a conocer el sitio de Cuchipuy.

Un cordial saludo.

Ramiro Rarberena, Luis Cornejo y César Méndez
(Organizadores)

Rider and mount iconography is common in the rock art of northern Chile but it is little investigated and poorly understood. This paper takes a new approach which focuses on the meaning and context of these equestrian images. It surveys the contexts in which equestrian imagery, particularly that associated with Apostle Santiago, is used and the meanings it invokes in colonial period illustrations and contemporary indigenous Andean cultures. These insights form the basis of a new interpretation of the equestrian rock art imagery of the Aiquina area of northern Chile. It is argued that the incorporation of equestrian iconography into rock art was not a simple process of importing exotic items and ideas but a complex process involving the appropriation of imagery and ideas and the renegotiation of their meanings in new cultural contexts.