Animals of the Serranía de la Lindosa

Exploring representation and categorisation in the rock art and zooarchaeological remains of the Colombian Amazon

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ID2082529
AutoresMark Robinson (0000-0003-4911-7106, University of Exeter, autor correspondente), Jamie Hampson (0000-0001-5914-9422, University of Exeter), Jo Osborn (0000-0001-9929-6144, University of Exeter), F J Aceituno (0000-0002-5727-8826, Universidad de Antioquia), Gaspar Morcote-Ríos (0000-0002-1031-0753, Universidad Nacional de Colombia), Michael Ziegler (0000-0002-9936-0895, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History), Michael J Ziegler, J Iriarte (0000-0002-8155-5360, University of Exeter)
Ano2024
Volume75
Páginas101613
Data de publicação2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Anthropological Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0278-4165 • E-ISSN: 1090-2686
EditoraElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101613
OpenAlexW4400806444
IdiomaES
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas52

The Serranía de la Lindosa in the Colombian Amazon hosts one of the most spectacular global rock art traditions. Painted in vibrant ochre pigments, the artwork depicts abstract and figurative designs – including a high diversity of animal motifs – and holds key information for understanding how Amazonians made sense of their world. We compare a zooarchaeological assemblage with painted depictions of animals at the Cerro Azul site, and utilise relevant ethnographies and ethnohistories. A lack of direct proportional relationships between the animal representation in the art and zooarchaeological remains alludes to the complex socio-cultural interconnection between Amazonian communities and their ritualised environments. We discuss the benefits and limitations of quantitative categorisation and explore Indigenous ontologies, highlighting Amazonian perspectives on human-animal relationships

Amazon rainforest · Amazonian · Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Biology · Ethnography · Ethnology · Geography · Iconography · Indigenous · Politics · Representation (politics · Rock art · Sociology · Zooarchaeology · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · History · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology