Rock paintings, soot, and the practice of marking places. A case study in North-Central Chile
| Autor: | Catalina Venegas, Andrés Troncoso, Francisca Moya-Cañoles, José Cárcamo, Diego Artigas, Felipe Armstrong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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010506 paleontology
Archeology Painting 060102 archaeology North central Excavation 06 humanities and the arts medicine.disease_cause 01 natural sciences Archaeology Soot law.invention law medicine 0601 history and archaeology Rock art Radiocarbon dating Geology Holocene 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 36:102853 |
| ISSN: | 2352-409X |
| Popis: | The study of rock art production has been traditionally focused either on the tools used in the process and/or in the components of rock paintings. In this paper we consider the role of fire and soot as substances that participated in the dynamic process of rock art making by Late Holocene hunter-gatherers from the Limari River Basin (North-Central Chile). Through Optical Microscopy, Raman Spectroscopy and SEM-EDS analyses, together with traditional strategies of rock art recording and radiocarbon dating of paintings, soot and materials recovered from a stratigraphic excavation, we study how fire and soot structured the practice of rock art making in Alero Cachaco. The results show that the deposition of soot on the walls and ceiling of the rockshelter, produced by fire associated with daily activities of the communities that inhabited it, covered paintings, leading people to re-paint the rockshelter for almost 3000 years. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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