An approach to the rock art in four municipalities of the RACCN, Nicaragua
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https://doi.org/10.5377/torreon.v8i21.8852Keywords:
rock art, interpretative approach, everyday life, iconography, pictograph, Autonomous Region of the North Caribbean Coast of NicaraguaAbstract
This research presents a stylistic classification of 45 graphic representations (petroglyphs and pictographs) of four municipalities of the Autonomous Region of the North Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, the result of several stages of research. The main objective of this study was to analyze the rock motifs through an iconographic analysis that, also; involved determining the historical-cultural context of elaboration and the approximate meaning of the iconic characteristics identified in the selected specimens. According to the results from the iconographic description and taking into account important variables in its configuration, such as the elaboration techniques and the characteristics of the rocks on which the representations were expressed are substantial indicators to say that the specimens studied were elaborated on the basis of various degrees of technical and stylistic specificity, therefore, the cultural group that gave rise to this type of rock graphic manifestation left testimony of complex writings that allowed through images to represent their reality, that is, their daily life and environment with a very important symbolic framework.
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