[PDF] Top 20 Open-air rock-art, territories and modes of exploitation during the Upper Palaeolithic in the Côa Valley (Portugal)

... 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

... characteristic of Portuguese Palaeolithic rock art is its vast number of open-air sites in comparison with its cave art, which is only to be found in ... 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 on ... See full document

... The rock art of lhe Côa Valley has been compared with lhe engraved and painted slabs recovered in lhe Parpalló sequence, and it has been pointed out that lhe bestiary depicted is simila[r] ... See full document

... Piscos and the site of Vale Figueira, rock no. 1 of Fariseu ...8 and 9) is one of the keys to the systematisation of the Côa’s Quaternary ... See full document

... result of the construction of a hydroelectric dam in the Northeast of ...All the data collected is still under analysis and it will take some more years to get a ... See full document

... Epipalaeolithic art seems to continue the Upper Palaeolithic model, but the scarceness of remains doesn’t allow much ...Although the region continued to be occupied, there ... See full document

... argument of why engravers overwhelmingly preferred the slopes that receive higher amounts of sunshine will revolve around two ...consider the UP human habitat sites already identified ... See full document

... Before the calculation, the study area was divided into two datasets (model and external validation) of equal area and same geological characteristics ...model and validation ... See full document

... For the Pleistocene record, we can thus de fine two main phases of weathering (W1 and W2 in this paper) of the schist outcrops in the CôaRiver ...phases of ... See full document

... excavation of the central part of the site has shown that an alluvial deposit underlies layer 8 (Figure ...that the site was occupied during the Upper ... See full document

... that the depiction of movement and subsequent invention of motion pictures in the Upper Palaeolithic deserves, in its own right, to be inscribed as a ... See full document

... to the kinds of resource packages provided by the ...environment. In Iberia, except for short periods and in restricted regions located in the foothills of ... 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 two ... 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

... style of some of the figures of Rock 37 of Penascosa, discovered during the campaign of 2018, proves that the panel was accessible during ... See full document

... Portugal, Upper Paleolithic evidences present some peculiarities comparatively to the European context, in term of chronology, animal resources, bone tools, lithic tool categories and ... See full document

... within the first year of life, whereas the boxplots record the mean and the distribution values of width measurements obtained from the five modern reference ... 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

... behind the production of rock- art has been argued for, even if its use adds yet another layer of meaning onto the very fabric of human ...workings. The proposed ... See full document