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The renewal of the archaeological record, mainly through the discovery of unpublished sites, provides information that sometimes qualifies or even reformulates previous approaches. One of the latter cases is represented by the three new decorated caves found in 2015 in Aitzbitarte Hill. Their exhaustive study shows the presence of engraved animals, mainly bison, with formal characteristics unknown so far in the Palaeolithic art of the northern Iberian Peninsula. However, parallels are located in caves in southern France such as Gargas, Cussac, Roucadour or Cosquer. All of them share very specific graphic conventions that correspond to human occupations assigned basically to the Gravettian cultural complex. The new discovery implies the need to reformulate the iconographic exchange networks currently accepted, as well as their correspondence with other elements of the material culture at the same sites. Thus, we have carried out a multiproxy approach based in statistical analysis. The updated data reveals a greater complexity in artistic expression during the Gravettian that had not been considered so far, and also challenges the traditional isolation that had been granted to Cantabrian symbolic expressions during pre-Magdalenian times.

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ResumenEste artículo busca contribuir al estudio de la circulación humana en los espacios internodales, investigando lugares de uso pasajero en zonas áridas o semi áridas. La investigación se concentra en una específica localidad: Incaguasi (región de Antofagasta, Chile), un desértico paraje actualmente deshabitado del valle superior del río Loa que ha funcionado como sitio de travesía para los viajeros desde a lo menos 1200 DC. La arqueología y las fuentes históricas nos han permitido desvelar la historia ocupacional de Incaguasi como lugar de paso, las actividades realizadas allí a lo largo de ocho siglos y los cambios y continuidades a través de los períodos Intermedio Tardío, Inka, Colonial, Boliviano y Chileno. Palabras claves: Norte de Chile -espacios internodales -circulación -lugares de paso -historia ocupacional.Abstract This paper aims to make a contribution to the study of the human circulation in internodal spaces by studying passing places in arid and semi-arid zones. Research focuses in a specific locality: Incaguasi (Antofagasta Region, Chile), a currently uninhabited landscape in the upper ravine of the Loa river, a crossing point to travellers from at least AD 1200. Archaeological and historical records have permitted us to unveil the occupational history of Incaguasi as a transito staging post, the activities carried on this place over eight centuries, and changes and continuities over the Late Intermediate, Late or Inka, Colonial, Bolivian and Chilean periods.