LAS PEÑAS DEL COLORADO, UN MONUMENTO DE PIEDRA SIGNIFICATIVO EN EL PAISAJE DEL NOROESTE DE GUANAJUATO: IMPLICACIONES ASTRONÓMICAS
THE ROCKS OF COLORADO, A MONUMENT SIGNIFICANT STONE IN THE NORTHWEST LANDSCAPE OF GUANAJUATO: ASTRONOMICAL IMPLICATIONS

Author(s): Omar Cruces Cervantes
Subject(s): Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: landscape archaeology; natural places; stone monuments
Summary/Abstract: We seek to approach the forms of pre-Hispanic thought by analyzing the various elements that make up the significant landscape in the archeology of Guanajuato. This article will address the stone monument called Las Peñas del Colorado, located in the northwest of this State. It is a rocky outcrop with small arrangements suggesting an astronomical purpose and a possible association with certain ritual practices. In this space, the experience is structured by connecting various elements: an astronomical marker that mediates this phenomenon, the celestial body as a temporal agent that highlights a complex event, and human actors with assumed roles and determined actions. We take up the concept of cultural astronomy to recognize in these phenomena the mechanism and the conceptual system where the sky and its content acquire the ability to represent concepts.

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