On February 10, the book “Rock Art in the Valley of Enchantment” by the professor of the Department of Social Sciences, Gonzalo Ampuero, will be presented to the community.

From January 30 to February 15, the XXX La Serena Book Fair will take place this year, a traditional cultural activity that takes place every summer in the Plaza Gabriel González Videla in the regional capital and in which the Universidad Editorial will participate with a stand. from La Serena.

In this way, the regional public and also tourists who visit the Coquimbo Region will be able to learn about the books published by the Editorial, an entity that, since its inception in 2008 to date, has published 68 books, to which are added texts by study, institutional memories and reissues.

His publications deal with the most varied areas: biology, sciences, social sciences, ecology, economics, education, philosophy, history, literature, mathematics, narrative, poetry, psychology and chemistry. All works are available to the community in the ULS Bookstore, located in the institutional Extension Center, at Prat 446, La Serena, and which is stocked with 6.982 titles.

In addition, audiences from all over the country and abroad can have access to purchase these books through the website. http://editorial.userena.cl and in recognized international portals such as http://www.amabook.com y http://www.gandhi.com.mx.

Book Release

As part of its activities, numerous launches are held at the Book Fair every year. This is how on Tuesday, February 10, it will be the turn of “Rock Art in the Valley of Enchantment”, by the professor of the Department of Social Sciences, Gonzalo Ampuero, a work that in its second edition (2014) was published by the ULS Editorial in co-financing with the I. Municipality of Ovalle.

Starting at 21:00 p.m., the author will share with attendees details of this work in which he recounts the research he carried out in the National Historical Monument and where he addresses the characteristics of the site, its rock art, petroglyphs, pictographs, stones cups, archaeological context, etc., accompanied by images of this art so characteristic of the place.

“Since 1964, the year in which the first excavations were carried out in the Valle del Encanto, this small ravine, once known as “Estero Las Peñas”, a few kilometers from the city of Ovalle, became known as one of the archaeological sites of greatest relevance in Chile, given the existence of a particular group of Rock Art," states the book that may be known by the community in thise summer event that turns 30 years old.