About fires and paintings: Three stratigraphic insights on the history of a cave with prehispanic rock art by Gheco, Lucas Ignacio, Gastaldi, Marcos Roman, Marte, Fernando Daniel, Quesada, Marcos Nicolás, Tascon, Marcos, Mastrangelo, Noemi Elisa

“…Trying to answer this question, in this paper we propose a method to link three different approaches that share the same stratigraphic principle: the excavation of the cave's floor sediments, the confection of a Harris' matrix of the painting process of one of the panels with rock art; and the study and further chemical analysis (SEM-EDS and Raman) of micro samples taken from the figures painted and the rock underlying. The potential of every single approach is multiplied by the interconnection given by the discovery of small layers of carbonization in the cave's walls as a result of several combustion events (hearths) done inside the cave. …”
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