Hunting scenes in Cueva de las Manos

In this chapter we discuss the painted hunting scenes identified in the north-west of Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, and dated to ca. 9400–6800 bp. We analyze the tonal groups, superimpositions, patterns of the designs of zoo and anthropomorphic figures, composition of the scenes, their location on the panels and their micro-stratigraphy. With this information we were able to identify that the earliest hunting scenes are only present in Cueva de Las Manos, while later tonal series have a wider spatial dispersion, which allows us to link Cueva de Las Manos with Cerro Casa de Piedra as part of a seasonal mobility circuit between the highlands and the steppe.