Los nenes con los nenes, las nenas con las nenas: relaciones de género en el arte rupestre del sitio Los Cerrillos, Valle Calchaquí Norte (Pcia. de Salta, Argentina)

in the last decades, gender archaeology has gained increasing importance in world archaeology (see gero and conkey 1991; brumfield 1996; escoriza mateu 2002; among others). nonetheless, in our country this topic has been scarcely explored. in this paper, i seek to analyze the way gender relations were represented in a particular site of the northern calchaqui valley during the late period -900/1470 dc- (tarragó 1974). through the study of the petroglyphs found in los cerrillos site, and centering in the analysis of anthropomorphic representations, i aim to explore the way gender relations were produced and reproduced through the narrative that los cerrillos rock art offered. i conclude that the male and female representations are quantitatively different, expressing an explicit discourse through which gender differences were highlighted.