bird painting at cafayate, pinturas rupestres

A rock painting is all drawing or sketch prehistoric existing in some rocks and caves. The term "rock" from the Latin rupestris, And the latter from rupes (rock), but also stands for primitive. So, strictly speaking, rock would refer to any human activity on walls of caves, huts, rock shelters and even cliffs or gulliesEtc.. From this aspect, it is virtually impossible to isolate other manifestations pictorial representations of prehistoric art as engravings, sculptures and petroglyphs, Engraved on stone by percussion or erosion. Being protected from erosion by the nature of the medium, the rock paintings have withstood the passage of centuries.