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Los personajes con vestimenta son una de las representaciones rupestres más conocidas del noroeste argentino y el norte de Chile, y su presencia en ambas áreas es un indicador de la importante dinámica de interacción ocurrida durante el período Tardío entre ambos espacios. Una variedad de estos personajes son los antropomorfos con cuerpos de lados cóncavos (sensu Montt 2005), los que en ocasiones se representan asociados a escutiformes santamarianos. Si bien se ha planteado que su distribución meridional por la vertiente andina occidental no traspasa el área de San Pedro de Atacama (Montt 2005), en este trabajo presentamos tres diseños antropomorfos con cuerpo de lados cóncavos reconocidos en el arte rupestre del valle de Illapel (30° LS), Provincia del Choapa, Norte Semiárido de Chile. En particular, se establece un análisis formal de estos diseños y se los compara con aquellos reconocidos en zonas más septentrionales, para luego discutir su cronología y evaluar las implicancias de su presencia en espacios tan alejados a su área de distribución original, registro que se asocia, en la región, a la circulación de diseños establecida por el Tawantinsuyu. Anthropomorphous figures with clothing stand out among the most frequent representations in the rock art of Northwestern Argentina and Northern Chile. Their ubiquity in both areas has been considered as an indicator of the dynamics of interregional interaction during late prehistory. Antropomorphous with concave sides (sensu Montt 2005) are but one expression of these popular type of representations, and at least in some cases are associated with "shield-man" of the Santa María style. Even though it has been stated previously that for the western Cordillera de los Andes the southernmost dispersion of this type of anthropomorphous figure is the San Pedro de Atacama area (Montt 2005), in this paper we present three such figures recently recorded in the rock art of the Illapel valley, in the Choapa Province, north-central Chile (30°LS). We will discuss the chronology, affinities and relations between these anthropomorphous figures and their northern counterparts and evaluate why they are present in places so far away from their original spatial distribution pattern. Also we discuss the relations between these designs and the image circulation realized by the Tawantinsuyu.
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