estrategias constructivas, simbolismo del paisaje y arte rupestre en los cerros de trincheras del noroeste de sonora
The most outstanding features of the Trincheras archaeological sites in northwestern Sonora (A.D. 200-1450) are the complex settlements associated with the fluvial basins and the volcanic hills: on the hill slopes we find terraces, paths and rock art; on the summits: observatories with views to the...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2011 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO |
| Repositorio: | Anales de Antropología |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/25367 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/view/25367 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Trincheras’ archaeological sites rock art landscape symbolism Cerros de trincheras arte rupestre simbolismo del paisaje |
| Sumario: | The most outstanding features of the Trincheras archaeological sites in northwestern Sonora (A.D. 200-1450) are the complex settlements associated with the fluvial basins and the volcanic hills: on the hill slopes we find terraces, paths and rock art; on the summits: observatories with views to the plains and nearby hills, wall structures with rock engravings; at the foot of the hills: metates, bedrock mortars and rock art; on the plains, contiguous to the hills: plazas, alignment of big rocks, pithouse remains, roasting pits for processing agaves, remains of lithic tools, shell artifacts and potsherds of the diagnostic types. Spaces auspicious for domestic and collective productive activities, as well as rituals, long distance observation-communication and defence. Together, all of these elements create a general pattern. We believe that the cultural organization of landscape in these sites is not the product of chance but something created for the purpose of an efficient, everyday productive life and that it also embodies a symbolic structure, based on cosmological concepts of a religious origin, asso- ciated with the practice of rituals. Specifically, ritual hunting and rain making ceremonies can be inferred from the analysis of the form, placing, distribution and astronomical orientation of the structures, the activity remains, the analysis of rock art symbols and the ethnohistoric and ethnographic records. |
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