Rock Art Research

Abstract. We present the analysis results of rock paintings and their relative production sequence at the Cueva de las Manos del río Pedregoso site, a cave in central western Patagonia,  southern Chile. We developed a typology of the motifs and propose a relative chronology  using Harris’s matrices to identify superimpositions. The results suggest several painting  episodes evidencing reiterative rock art production, likely covering several millennia. Also,  conspicuous attributes of the paintings suggest connections between the site and other distant  locations based on analogue emblematic rock art sequences from different timeframes across  wider Patagonia.