[PDF] Top 20 "On endless motion": depiction of movement in the Upper Palaeolithic Côa Valley rock art (Portugal)

... that rock art, as any other product on human activity, anywhere and at any given moment, has manifold overlapping ...meanings. In today‟s world of „Homo globalis‟, it is common sense, ... See full document

... that the Palaeolithic is lacking evidence for open-air rock art and, in the Iron Age, the open-air rock art is not as visible as in recent ...portable ... See full document

... wisdom the idea that Palaeolithic parietal art was confined to caves where it could be kept hidden from uninitiated ...that the age of hundreds of petroglyphs discovered ... See full document

... Côa valley. Moreover, a lot of rocks that were engraved during this phase are probably under the sediments of the valley, and these buried rocks most probably belong to ... See full document

... feature of the Côa valley rock art, with several panels featu- ring equids, bovines, caprids and ...cervids. In terms of existing cervids at the Côa ... See full document

... One of the suggested routes to enter the Côa would be via the Massueime ...stream. The Massueime’s mouth is only 3km. from the Penascosa/Quinta da Barca Gravettian ... See full document

... point of view (Fig. 3), the Quaternary motifs are similar to those featured in the parietal art of the Iberian Peninsula and the Franco-Cantabrian ...Some of ... See full document

... has the largest group of rock art from the early phases of the ...walls of this deeply incised area allowed the preservation of painted ...motifs. ... See full document

... from these locations, suggest an association with undated and defined human occupation activi- ties on floodplain erosiorial deposits. Mean- while, we must he cautious in generaliz[r] ... See full document

... types of engravings have been recognised: the most dominant is the filiform incision, created by a small lithic blade tool (probably flint or quartz) that enables very fine engravings of red ... See full document

... The Upper Palaeolithic Côa Valley settlement is defined by 22 sites securely identified on surface, 15 of which have been excavated or surveyed (Aubry ...divided in ... See full document

... His analysis of the nanostratigraphy of the ac- cretionary deposits and the dates he secured from deposits older and younger than the rock- art provide reliable age estimates [r] ... See full document

... relying on field work and microscopic analysis on thin section of selected samples, in order to identify the sources of the lithic raw material found at C^oa Valley ... See full document

... that the object to be conserved is not only the engraved areas but the totality of the ...assumption in planning and implementing conservation interventions if we also want to ... See full document

... found in a topographic platform located ...above the present-day Côa riverbed (m a.r.b) (Fig. 4). The cross- section exposed in areas excavated between 1997 and 2018 revealed the ... See full document

... between the Bohunician and the Ehmiran of the Near East, and both emerge at about the same time, some scholars have suggested that the former is in fact but a westward ... See full document

... 2004, the PAVC set a tender for conservation for the rock engravings, located on schist outcrops throughout the ...focusing on specific outcrops within the three main ... See full document

... synthesis of Palaeolithic rock art (Alcalde del Río et ...them in the Aurignacian-Perigordian (approximately from 40,000 to 22,000 ...mostly of pre-Magdalenian age but ... See full document

... none of these factors can really withstand scrutiny. The presence of palaeolithic settlements in the area in no way provides a date for these ...images. The front ... See full document

... accumulations of large snails dated during the Gravettian period ...reported on the basis of taxonomic, taphonomic and biometric data and their association with occupational features, ... See full document