Eloy Linares Málaga: pionero del arte rupestre

Resumen

The fi rst time I met Professor Eloy Linares Málaga was in Vancouver, at the 11th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences in August 1983. There were three small rock art sessions, only one of which included formal paper presentations (seven papers in all, in an event featuring well over a thousand presentations) and he had been invited to attend. He seemed to be making a point of wanting to talk to every one of the rock art specialists present — not that there were so many, barely more than a dozen. Most of them were Americans and I noticed how they nodded politely as their gaze wandered around to look for alternative conversation partners, preferably someone wanting to listen to their own breathtaking stories. Or perhaps they regarded the Peruvian rock art as very marginal to their own interests.