Resumen de Early rock art of the Americas as reflected in the Northeast Mexican corridor
Absolute dating of North American rock art has been very limited and often surrounded by controversy, but early dates from South America imply that at least some of the initial migrants into the Americas may have brought rock art traditions with them. If one assumes that their movements proceeded from north to south, they would have to pass through the Mesoamerican geographical corridor and might have left traces in their trajectory.
This paper will examine a sample of the rock art in the Eastern Sierra Madre portion of that corridor in the Northeast Mexican states of Nuevo León and Coahuila. It attempts to identify possible early motifs using relative dating based on superposition and rock wear as initial guides. In particular, the sample will focus on diverse types of configurated dot motifs which appear to be among the oldest present in the region and also have a wide distribution throughout the Americas (and elsewhere).
