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Fig. 21.1. Some of the Colombian rock art sites documented in the last few years: a) San Jacinto, (Bolvar); b) Schica (Boyac);
c) Sutatausa (Cundinamarca); d) Floridablanca (Santander), 4; e) Zipacn (Cundinamarca); f) Cucunub (Cundinamarca);
g) Sutatausa (Cundinamarca); h) Chinchina (Caldas) (Diego Martnez C. 20062010; Pedro Argello 2009).
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Fig. 21.2. Location of rock art sites documented and published during the last few years.
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Fig. 21.3. Transcription of a portion of rock paintings from the Abrigo de Los Jaguares (Chiribiquete) (drawing: Diego Martinez
based on a photo by Carlos Castao Uribe, 2005).
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Fig. 21.6. Conservation work (graffiti removal) in Parque Arqueolgico de Facatativa (Cundinamarca) (Mara Paula lvarez,
2005).
Conclusion
Until recent years it was assumed that Colombian rock art
deserved only a marginal place in scholarly works which
summarised knowledge about this topic in South America
(Dubelaar 1984; Linares 1999; Schobinger 1997). This
situation was due to several factors such as the low flow of
academic information between South American countries;
but even more it was due to the lack of comprehensive
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Fig. 21.9. Interpretative pathway in the Parque Arqueolgico de Facatativa (Cundinamarca) (script and design: Martinez and
Botiva, 2008).
Fig. 21.10. Differential distribution of rock paintings produced by taphonomic processes, Sutatausa (Cundinamarca) (after
Argello and Martnez 2004).
Acknowledgements
Carlos Castao Uribe and Mara Paula lvarez kindly
provided photos for Figures 4 and 6 respectively. We
would also like to thank James Williams for helping with
the English in an early version of this text.
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