Riders on the storm

Rock art in the Atacama Desert (Northern Chile)

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3919218
AutoresFrancisco Gallardo (0000-0003-2871-7401, Fundación Chile), Victoria Castro (0000-0002-9637-7296, University of Chile), Pablo Miranda (0000-0002-1993-5071), Pablo V Miranda (Fundación Chile)
Ano1999
Volume31
Fascículo2
Páginas225-242
Data de publicação1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoWorld Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00438243.1999.9980443
OpenAlexW2052432177
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas12

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

Appropriation · Archaeology · Context (archaeology · Desert (philosophy · Ethnohistory · Geography · Iconography · Indigenous · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Rock art · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Ecology · History · Law · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology