The Re-Inscription of ‘Arte Rupestre’ in Argentina. A Genealogy (1870-1960)

Authors

  • Carlos Masotta Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano (INAPL), Argentina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7160-4552

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18441/ind.v40i2.195-220

Keywords:

pictography, petroglyph, pictorial turn, arte rupestre, archaeology, Argentina

Abstract

In this article I propose a genealogy of the terminology employed by archaeology in Argentina to approach the so-called ‘pictographs’ and ‘petroglyphs’ from the late 19th century until the establishment of ‘arte rupestre’, around 1960. This analysis enables us to observe how this transformation was developed on terminological and conceptual axis of writing-art.

Published

2023-12-29

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