Arte rupestre del Corredor terrestre-fluvial Negro – Orinoco – lago de Valencia: hacia una nominación en serie a la Lista del Patrimonio Mundial

Abstract

Based mainly on geographic, archaeological, linguistic, ethno-historical and ethnographic information, a proposal for a territorial organization is presented, provisionally called the Negro – Orinoco – Lake Valencia land-river Corridor (CTF-NOV). The premise of the research is that it allows covering, in the general context of the lowlands of northern South America (TBNS), a series of natural and cultural values, especially rock art sites geographically, historically and culturally related, of extreme heritage richness. In this sense, the general objective of the research is to demonstrate that CTF-NOV’ rock art has exceptional universal values that allow its inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List in the Transnational Cultural Itinerary category. With this approach, the CTF-NOV geographic context is explored, from the macro-regional to the regional and local, and the long-term historical processes that interrelate the people and communities that inhabit it today. The enormous number of rock art sites associated stands out, as proof of the ancient functioning of the CTF-NOV as a means of communication and development of human phenomena characterized by transmission, interaction and cultural change, without radical ruptures between past and present. From a theoretical-conceptual point of view, the work is based on transdisciplinary dialogue that articulates different areas of knowledge for the effective study of the past, such as history, archeology, anthropology, ethnohistory and heritage studies. From a methodological point of view, documentary research techniques were applied, with primary and secondary data sources and the use of hemerographic and documentary references on the topics investigated. Finally, we aim to answer the following question: does the CTF-NOV’ rock art have exceptional universal values that would allow its inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List?