Abstract

Rock art and circulation routes serve as inputs to understand the premountain territory of Tarapacá, as a landscape of regional connectivity and encounters between Mamiña, Quipisca and Iquiuca localities. From a transdisciplinary approach that merges together the archaeology, history and ethnography, this investigation address petroglyphs, geoglyphs and the road system from the study of the material culture, historic documents, oral memory, and local perspectives from the indigenous communities and associations. An effort to provide meaning, value and historicity to an active and daily territory, composed by material elements that although they were constructed in remotes times, they are still part of the cultural landscape of those who still live it.