Resumen

MEGE R, Pedro  y  GALLARDO I, Francisco. ARCHAEOSEMIOTICS AND ROCK ART PAINTINGS IN THE ATACAMA DESERT (NORTHERN CHILE). Chungará (Arica) [online]. 2015, vol.47, n.4, pp.589-602.  Epub 29-Oct-2015. ISSN 0717-7356.  http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-73562015005000048.

Semiological perspectives applied to rock art have been unsuccessful. This failure results from attributing a phonemic nature to it, that is to say, from reducing its visual expression to its content. While in most rock art what is signified is no longer accessible, it is evident that the starting point should necessarily be the signifier. In this paper, we explore a new perspective using an intersemiotic language based on the relationship between semiotics and archaeology. In this dialogue, art styles are understood as a configuration of distinctive signifiers, bonds that establish a culturally meaningful visual structure. These solutions define the architecture of socially and historically determined ways of seeing and distinguish the two rock art cases in the Atacama region which are the focus of our study: Confluencia Style (Early Formative Period 4,000-2,400 BP) and Cueva Blanca Style (Late Formative Period 2,400-1,600 BP).

Palabras clave : Archaeosemiotics; style; rock art; ways of seeing; Formative Period; Atacama desert.

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