ROCK ART AND ENTANGLEMENT. NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR THE STUDY OF THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD (CA. 5500-1700 BP) IN ANTOFAGASTA DE LA SIERRA, ARGENTINA

Was rock art a way in which past societies expressed changes in other aspects of their life? Or was it (through its planning, production and consumption) an active and necessary element of these change processes? In this paper we use the concept of entanglement as a tool for understanding the networks of relationships of which rock art, as a materiality, was part. Our main objective is to reassess the agency of rock art during the transitional process to food production in Antofagasta de la Sierra (Southern Argentinian Puna), looking into the material and non-material intertwinings produced during the formation of the social fabric.