Jamie Hampson, José Iriarte, Francisco Javier Aceituno
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Abstract
There are tens of thousands of painted rock art motifs in the Serranía de la Lindosa in the Colombian Amazon, including humans, animals, therianthropes, geometrics, and flora. For most of the last 100 years, inaccessibility and political unrest has limited research activities in the region. In this paper, we discuss findings from six years of field research and consider the role of rock art as a manifestation of Indigenous ontologies. By employing intertwining strands of evidence—a range of ethnographic sources, local Indigenous testimonies from 2021–2023, and the motifs themselves—we argue that the rock art here is connected to ritual specialists negotiating spiritual realms, somatic transformation, and the interdigitation of human and non-human worlds.
在哥伦比亚亚马逊河流域的林多萨山谷(Serranía de la Lindosa),有数以万计的彩绘岩画图案,包括人类、动物、神像、几何图形和植物。在过去 100 年的大部分时间里,交通不便和政治动荡限制了该地区的研究活动。在本文中,我们将讨论六年来的实地研究成果,并探讨岩石艺术作为土著本体的一种表现形式所发挥的作用。通过采用相互交织的证据--一系列人种学资料、2021-2023 年当地土著人的证词以及图案本身--我们认为,这里的岩石艺术与仪式专家协商精神领域、躯体转变以及人类和非人类世界的相互融合有关。