Animals of the Serranía de la Lindosa: Exploring representation and categorisation in the rock art and zooarchaeological remains of the Colombian Amazon

IF 2 1区社会学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Pub Date : 2024-07-19 DOI:10.1016/j.jaa.2024.101613

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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.

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Serranía de la Lindosa 的动物：探索哥伦比亚亚马逊岩画和动物考古遗迹中的表现形式和分类方法

哥伦比亚亚马逊河流域的林多萨山谷（Serranía de la Lindosa）拥有全球最壮观的岩石艺术传统之一。这些艺术品用鲜艳的赭石颜料绘制，描绘了抽象和具象的图案，包括种类繁多的动物图案，是了解亚马逊人如何认识他们的世界的关键信息。我们比较了 Cerro Azul 遗址的动物考古组合和动物彩绘，并利用了相关的人种志和人种史。艺术品中的动物形象与动物考古遗迹之间缺乏直接的比例关系，这暗示了亚马逊社区与其仪式化环境之间复杂的社会文化相互联系。我们讨论了定量分类的益处和局限性，并探讨了土著本体论，强调了亚马逊人对人与动物关系的看法。

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology Multiple-

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期刊介绍： An innovative, international publication, the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology is devoted to the development of theory and, in a broad sense, methodology for the systematic and rigorous understanding of the organization, operation, and evolution of human societies. The discipline served by the journal is characterized by its goals and approach, not by geographical or temporal bounds. The data utilized or treated range from the earliest archaeological evidence for the emergence of human culture to historically documented societies and the contemporary observations of the ethnographer, ethnoarchaeologist, sociologist, or geographer. These subjects appear in the journal as examples of cultural organization, operation, and evolution, not as specific historical phenomena.