Schematic Rock Painting: the panel, social space

Abstract

The panel, which is used to support the symbols of a certain social formation, is turned into a space for the representation of this formation. It is used to incorporate or arrange or mess up the elements that circulate in a certain system. Thus, the social action is reflected in a product that is characterised by a symbolic nature. However, it is obvious that this social representation does not have an exclusive nature when dealing with the schematic rock painting. In the following pages we are going to try to analyse the relationship between the organization and configuration of this space, the panel, and the social dynamics, getting information from the different stages of its course, in series of sequences which are arranged by the coordinates of what we have called 'Social Spacial and Time'.