With the conquest and colonization of the region beginning in the 16th century, the practice of rock art was transformed and a new iconography emerged, linked to the religion imposed on the indigenous people of New Spain: the crosses, chapels and glosses -generally of religious character-, sometimes denied and in others reinforced and revitalized the old sacred spaces of the warlike nomadic Chichimecas and Arroyo Seco did not escape to this situation: in several of its supports we find vestiges of the missionary work shaped in the rock.

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