Mountjoy, Joseph B.
Reports. An interpretation of the pictographs at La Peña Pintada, Jalisco, México. Joseph B. Mountjoy - Estados Unidos-US : Society for American Archaeology, 1982. - páginas 110-126: ilustraciones en blanco y negro. - Trimestral - vol.47; n.1 (Jan.1982) - American Antiquity. Journal of the Society for American Archaeology ; no.1 . - Soociety for American Archaeology. .
A recently discovered sheltered rock scar covered with red pictographs, in Jalisco, west Mexico, is a major addition to the rather meager data on pictographs in Mesoamerica. It appears to contain a compex set of data pertaining to the cosmology of the relatively unknown Indians who inhabited the Jalisco coast during the last Pre Hispanic period. Analysis of the scar has incorporated both the artistic symbolism of the nearby Huichol Indians, and concepts developed through archaeoastronomy. This analysis suggests that he ceiling pictographs record the use of sky transits of the sun, Venus, or the constellation Orion as wet seasin dry season calendrical markers. Wall pictographs show the sun on the mountainous horizon, below which is the earth filled with symbols of plants and animals; among these stand shamans calling down the life giving rain from the god(s) of the sky. I also explore the possibility that one of the celling pictographs is a record of the appearance of the Crab supernova in the sky in AD. 1054.
PICTOGRAFIA ARQUEOLOGIA
Reports. An interpretation of the pictographs at La Peña Pintada, Jalisco, México. Joseph B. Mountjoy - Estados Unidos-US : Society for American Archaeology, 1982. - páginas 110-126: ilustraciones en blanco y negro. - Trimestral - vol.47; n.1 (Jan.1982) - American Antiquity. Journal of the Society for American Archaeology ; no.1 . - Soociety for American Archaeology. .
A recently discovered sheltered rock scar covered with red pictographs, in Jalisco, west Mexico, is a major addition to the rather meager data on pictographs in Mesoamerica. It appears to contain a compex set of data pertaining to the cosmology of the relatively unknown Indians who inhabited the Jalisco coast during the last Pre Hispanic period. Analysis of the scar has incorporated both the artistic symbolism of the nearby Huichol Indians, and concepts developed through archaeoastronomy. This analysis suggests that he ceiling pictographs record the use of sky transits of the sun, Venus, or the constellation Orion as wet seasin dry season calendrical markers. Wall pictographs show the sun on the mountainous horizon, below which is the earth filled with symbols of plants and animals; among these stand shamans calling down the life giving rain from the god(s) of the sky. I also explore the possibility that one of the celling pictographs is a record of the appearance of the Crab supernova in the sky in AD. 1054.
PICTOGRAFIA ARQUEOLOGIA
