Antiquity, Interpretation, and Stylistic Evolution of Petroglyphs in West Mexico

Abstract

New data from two sites in the municipality of San Blas, Nayarit, indicate that the practice of pecking petroglyphs in West Mexico is older than it has been possible to establish in previous studies. Petroglyphs at the La Coba site appear firmly dated to the Los Cocos phase (A.D. 200-600), and petroglyphs at the El Conchal site seem attributable to the Early Ixtlan phase (300 B.C.-A.D. 200) occupation. Hypotheses are offered regarding stylistic evolution of the pecked designs and their interpretation.

Historia florística y ambiental del bosque mesófilo de montaña en el centro-occidente de México durante la pequeña edad de hielo

“…Esta actividad la realizan desde distintos puntos del estado por parajes dentro del bosque (Vargas-Rodríguez, Platt, Vázquez-García, Boquín, 2010; Vargas-Rodríguez, Vázquez-García, Quintero, Muñiz-Castro y Shalisko, 2010). Los grupos prehispánicos que ahí se asentaron fueron de la fase Nahuapa del año 1000 aC, de la fase Aztatlán 600-1000 aC y de la fase Guayacán de 300-600 aC (Mountjoy, 1987) de origen náhuatl y conformaban un pueblo llamado Tlallipan que significa «sobre la tierra» perteneciendo al reino de Xalisco. A la llegada de los españoles en el año de 1540 fueron incorporados a los dominios de la corona española (Martínez-Réding, 1992).…”

Pleistocene Palaeoart of the Americas

“…Cupules occur in much of North America, but they are especially common in the west of the United States. They occur also in Mexico (Mountjoy 1974(Mountjoy , 1987 [53,56,73,77,78,93,102], Costa Rica (Kennedy 1973) [64], and a cup-and-groove boulder has been reported from Panama (Rau 1882: 60; Stone 1972) [86,91], but none of them are suggested to be of the Pleistocene.…”