Rock art conservation and management in Bolivia. Experiences during 30 years (1988-2017)
This article begins with brief reflections on rock art and its conservation. It refers to the legal framework concerning cultural heritage and rock art site conservation in Bolivia. The latest version of the Constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia —in contrast to the former constitution—...
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Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires
2021
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/Arqueologia/article/view/8582 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=arqueo&d=8582_oai |
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| Sumario: | This article begins with brief reflections on rock art and its conservation. It refers to the legal framework concerning cultural heritage and rock art site conservation in Bolivia. The latest version of the Constitution of the Plurinational State of Bolivia —in contrast to the former constitution— defines collective ownership and postulates the general society as responsible for the conservation and preservation of the Bolivian cultural heritage, with the State acting as supervisor. The Bolivian Rock Art Research Society (SIARB) has worked in the last 30 years in the conservation of rock art sites, after having defined the institutional protocol for rock art conservation and research. The SIARB has established a corporative model for its activities involving: preventive conservation, specific conservation, measures and management of sites, including consultation and agreements between experts and different stakeholders such as municipal governments and communities, official permission for the works to be carried out, archaeological and ethnohistorical research, analysis of conservation status and basic treatment, development of sites with adequate infrastructure for visitation, education campaigns, and training workshops for tourist guides, rules for administration and a management plan that includes monitoring conservation conditions. Finally, this article mentions the activities carried out by different institutions that made interventions in rock art sites with neither technical nor scientific basis, whose results have been detrimental for the conservation of rock art. |
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