Arte Rupestre y Espacios de Memoria: Las Representaciones del Sitio Confl uencia (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca, Argentina) Rock Art and Spaces of Memory: Th e Depictions of Confl uencia Site (Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca, Argentina)

Our work addresses the continuity of rock art production as one of the many mechanisms that allowed the construction of social memory of the Puna communities over a long term process. With this purpose, we analyze the sequence of rock art production of Confl uencia site, Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca, Argentina. Th is sequence, representing diff erent periods of local and regional archeology (from ca. 5500 BP to the Spanish-Native contact period) was carried out using a deconstructive approach in a way that allowed us to identify the modes in which the depictions were articulated through the time, and ended up shaping the firock art assemblage. Finally, we could say that the continuity expressed in the successive rock art productions shows the way that diff erent social agents get related with the otherness that the preexistent depictions propose, by including the previous into the new discourse or by excluding it.