The different hunter-gatherer societies incorporated the landscape into their cosmovision, transforming it conceptually into a sacred landscape. The inhabitants of the semi-desert associated specific places with events of mythical origin, giving them a special power; in the mountains and hills lived the founding ancestors, the dead or the rain deities that were related to fertility, fecundity, health and the endless cycle of creation and death. According to the mythical content they assigned to the different landscapes, rituals were performed in which the practice of rock art occupied a central place: fertility rites, rites of passage, initiation, hunting and war among many other possibilities took place in the vast sacred geography of nomadic and semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers. In the end, the landscape was ritually marked by means of rock art.

The “Sun Stones”: In spring equinox.

Rock formations of La Pintada hill