[PDF] Top 20 The Upper Paleolithic Rock Art of Iberia

... evidence of Upper Paleolithic human habitation and the distributions of cave art and living sites are very ...cases of functional complementarity between neighboring ... 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

... that rock-art researchers are arguably tied to a politically correct stance that echoes Ingold’s ...On the one hand, the use of the word ‘art’ is robustly questioned when ... See full document

... on the origin, speed and mode of the wave-of-advance leading to the definitive occupation of Europe’s outskirts by Anatomically Modern Humans, during the Gravettian, ... See full document

... in the upper part of rock no. 2 of Piscos ...set of super- imposed, incised motifs, with a figurative stratigraphy that we consider extremely signifi- cant, though its ... See full document

... Abstract: The Upper Palaeolithic Côa Valley rock art complex is home to an extraordinary collection of motion-depiction ...motifs. The authors propose the Côa art ... See full document

... Slope chart of the Côa valley and surrounding plateau regions, with location of the Upper Palaeolithic rock art and settlement sites currently known.. However, for reason[r] ... See full document

... number of Holocene societies throughout the world have resorted at one time or another to the making of paints or carvings on different places (tombs, rock-shelters or caves, open- air ... See full document

... de Iberia: Nerja (Sanchidrián 1994; Pellicer y Sanchidrián 1998), Ambrosio (Ripoll 1986), Bajondillo (Simón y Cortés 2007), El Pirulejo (Cortés y Simón 2008) y Gorham (Simón et ... See full document

... at the end of the Eemian, 114 Ka ...by the Uranium-series 33-34 Ka dating of a plate from an unworn upper molar from the level C of the Foz do Enxarrique (P) ... See full document

... visible. The bestiary of this period is dominated by the red deer, followed by ibexes and horses, with fishes and aurochs as residual ...species. The chronology of these figures is well ... 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

... to the kinds of resource packages provided by the ...In Iberia, except for short periods and in restricted regions located in the foothills of the Pyrenees, reindeer were ... See full document

... that the analysis and proposals by the three firms were quite ...for the analysis of the state of conservation of the selected outcrops, they all came to similar ... See full document

... In the last 20 years, Palaeolithic archaeology in Portugal has produced some of the most revolution- ary and important sites in the world ...Palaeolithic rock art; Lagar Velho ... See full document

... conservation of outcrops. From an historic perspective, economic activities in the area of the PAVC mainly comprise agriculture (wine, olives and almonds), occasional quarrying and the ... 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 a single ...account the cave ... See full document

... Spain, the assemblages from Beneito, the rock-shelter of Ratlla del Bubo ( Iturbe and Cortell, 1992 ), and the cave site of Cova de Mallaetes ( Fortea and Jordá, 1976 ), all in ... See full document

... Early Upper Paleolithic occupation (Phase II from RB) was identi fied only on a small area of the platform, about 2 m below the surface, occupying approximately 35 m 2 .... The ... See full document

... became the actors of the Upper Paleolithic Revolution in the area, with the transformation from the Middle Paleolithic material culture, the Mous- ... See full document