Rock art in Ecuador: research 2010-2014

Abstract:

Up to the present, all rock art found in Ecuador consists of petroglyphs. The absence of documented rock paintings may be due to conservation conditions. Rock art sites exist in three of the geographic regions–the coast, the Sierra (mountains) and the Amazon lowlands–and are only missing on the Galapagos islands. Nevertheless, reports on these cultural heritage sites are scarce. A publication by Pedro Porras (1985) on the petroglyphs of Napo province in the northern Amazonian region is still considered an important reference on rock art in Ecuador. Regarding research in the years 2010-2014, only three projects have been published, two of them by the author (Ugalde 2011a, 2011b) which concern petroglyphs in Amazonia; and one by González and collaborators (2014) which provides a summary of petroglyphs in Loja province, in the southern region of the country, that were partially published on earlier …

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2016

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