Beyond materiality: sintaxis and relationality of rock art and some of the things we call nature

Abstract

From the analysis of the spatial distribution of the rock art in three zones of the upper basin of the Aconcagua River in central Chile: we discuss the materialization of a particular settlement pattern that necessary and significant dialogue that is established between the engravings and certain elements of its surrounding environment. Dialogue which trespasses our classical notions of culture and nature to face us with a different reality, in which the meaning of rock art transcends the rock materiality of the rock to be inserted in a more complex totality, which seen from an Andean perspective corresponds to Uywaña.