Comunicado de prensa Para m=E1s informaci=F3n, llame a: GUILLERMO MU=D1OZ C
CARRERA 54A No 174-12 URBANIZACION VILLA DEL PRADO. BOGOT=C1 COLOMBIA
SURAM=C9RICA TEL /6722390 Comunicado de prensa 06:59 HMG marzo 31, 1996
T=EDtulo RESUMEN Subject: ROCK ART IN COLOMBIA PICTURES AND ENGRAVING There
exists in Colombia, South America a group called GIPRI which has been
organized since to record and investigate pictographs and petroglyphs in
Colombia. We have located over 700 zones and have cloth rubbings of many
of the petroglyphs. Also we offer our expetise in computer presentation of
pictures and digitalized designs to anyone interested. A bulletin is in
the process of being published showing the type of work we accomplish. For
example, recent finds, recording techniques, rock art history in Colombia,
ethnographical aspects of rock art, etc. Soon we will send information to
subscribe to the bulletin. In the meantime send inquiries to: Director
Guillermo Munoz, Fundaci=F3n Cultura de los Pueblos pintores, Grupo GIPRI,
Carrera 54a No 174-12 Urbanizacion Villa del prado-Santafe de Bogot=E1,
Colombia SEDE NACIONAL DE ARTE RUPESTRE COLOMBIANO TIBACUY
CUNDINAMARCAPUBLICA LA REVISTA RUPESTRE: ARTE RUPESTRE EN COLOMBIA
Hoja de vida del director:=20
Since 1972 Guillermo Munoz C. Has studied rock art in Colombia and has
organized other researchers into an umbrella group called the Grupo de
investigacion del Arte Rupestre Indigena (GIPRI). He is a college profesor
and does field research primarily in the states of Cundinamarca and
Boyaca.A large data base of Cloth rubbings of colombian petroglyphs and
slides of pictographs han been accumulated by GIPRI through the years.=20
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there are 8 subgroups of GIPRI wowrking in various parts of
Colombia.recording, analyzing, and publishing articles: Presently there
are 8 subgroups of GIPRI wowrking in various parts of Colombia.recording,
analyzing, and publishing articles: 1. Harry Marriner covers the western
part of the state of Cundinamarca and has a special interest in
archeoastronomical aliggnments in association with rock art. He also has
worked in the Vichada state at the Mataven and Orinoco Rivers. Contact
Harry at FAX (fron the USA) 011-57-0-1-611-1904 or through relatives on
internet at Compuserve number 103613,3641 or 71174.300@ compuserve.COM.
2.Alvaro Agudelo works in the VIOTA (Amauta Group) area of Cundinamarca.
3.Pedro Arguello and Janeth Gonzalez cover the eastern portion of the
state of Cundinamarca (Chipaque,Fomeque,Chuachi). 4. Camilo Gutierrez,
Judith Truijjo and Diego Martinez are researching the Tibacuy and Cumaca
Areas .The town of Cumaca pertaining to the Tibacuy municipality, has been
designated the National Rock Art headquarters for Colombia and will
eventually house reference materials and research municipality, has been
designated the National Rock Art headquarters for Colombia and will
eventually house reference materials and research facilities. 5.Alvaro
Cano is in charge of the state of Antioquia. 6. Jesus Cardenas C. Is
stunding the area around Timana Huila. 7. Javier Martin, Jorge Roncancio,
Carlos Rodriguez and their group work in the Mesitas de el Colegio region
of Cundinamarca in conjuntion with the Universidad Distrital. 8. Alcides
Guerrero heads the grupo Mongua in the state of Boyaca GIPRI, in
association with the Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas has
recently published the first issue of a magazine called RUPESTRE- Arte
Rupestre en Colombia (52 pages in Spanish) This issue includes the history
of rock art study in Colombia and discusses the combined state of the art
methods of frotagge, photography, video scanner, includes the history of
rock art study in Colombia and discusses the combined state of the art
methods of frotagge, photography, video scanner, and the use of computer
software to record petroglyphs.Those interested in obtaining copies of the
magazine should send $15US dollars for each issue; in the year we will
have planned to edit two numbers of the magazine.Please pay in the forn of
an international Money order to:Guillermo Munoz GIPRI carrrera 54 A No
174-12 Santafe de Bogota Colombia South America Tel Fax 6722390 Santafe de
Bogot=E1; note: With the Institutions which have publications about rock
artresearch or others seems to, we propose to receive their publications
instead of ours.=20
ojala esta informacion preliminar sea suficientemente informativa para que
tengan una idea del tipo de trabajo que se hace en general en colombia.=20
Esta es la informacion que se paso en On line TRACCE en web italianos:
ROCK ART IN COLOMBIA The activity of painting or engraving rocks in
Colombia may have begun before the formative period. The scarce references
seem to refer to activities which occurred much sooner than just a few
years before the appearance of Spanish conquistadors. The differences in
rock art themes, the variety of zones, the diversity of picture forms and
engravings, seem to indicate that there existed long periods of rock art
activity from the paleoindian to the classic Muisca times. In 1970
investigations by the GIPRI group began. The focus during the early years
was in the search, study and preservation of national rock art zones. The
work began in the eastern central zone, in the high plains area of the
states of Cundinamarca and Boyaca. The first expeditions (1970-1975) had
the aim to confirm the ancient references and descriptions of Spanish
chroniclers of the 19th and 20th centuries. The result of those first
investigations show that not more than 10% of the total rock art zones
were described by earlier investigators. As of today (1996) more than 700
pictograph and petroglyph zones have been discovered. Some rural
traditions and beliefs have developed from some of the rock art design.
The GIPRI group has developed some unique systems and procedures of
recording and documenting rock art. The adaptation of the Frotagge system
(Priuli-Novoa), the use of a field record sheet, and the digitalization of
images, are some of the procedures used to record rocks and zones. Each
rock, and each painting or engraving is registered with all its attributes
on a field record sheet which is complemented with ethno-historic studies:=
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the history of the area, terror stories, esthetic traditions, associated
medical practices and archaeoastronomical alignments. RESULTS: 1. In 1991
the National University of Colombia (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
opened a new curriculum of rock art studies. Investigation groups have
been formed, educated, and sent to all areas of the country. The basic
source of information for these groups comes from the families of the
students. Each semester uncovers 10-20 new zones. 2. The publication of
the magazine RUPESTRE in which national and international discussion of
newly discovered zones is presented along with commentary from the
Colombian investigative groups. 3. The organization of specialized groups
(5 groups in 5 distinct zones). 4. Creation of the Nation Headquarters Of
Colombian Rock Art in the municipality of Tibacuy. PROJECTS FOR 1996-1998:
-Petroglyphs of Mesas del Colegio, Cundinamarca -Petroglyphs of Cabrera,
Cundinamarca -Petroglyphs of Tibacuy, Cundinamarca -Petroglyphs of Viota,
Cundinamarca -Preservation of pictographs in Facatativa, Cundinamarca
Director Guillermo Munoz C. EMAIL [log in to unmask]
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