As landscape art, the rock art of the central Andes offers clues regarding relationships between ancestor veneration and the negotiation of rights to water.
To understand these relationships this book focuses on a large complement of rock art situated in highland Ancash, Peru, (3400 - 4250 m.
Regional survey excavation data from key rock art sites are synthesised to identify diachronic changes in imagery, production techniques and location, and to develop a typology and a spatio-tempo.
British Archaeological Reports (oxford) Ltd Rock art, water, and ancestors: the semiotic construction of a sacred landscape in the central andes (1800 bce - ce 1820)/gordon ambrosino
