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Introduction: depiction of weapons and tools in rock art as ambivalent symbols ...

[Excerpt] The depiction of weapons and tools in rock art is a universal phenomenon found throughout the five continents, covering different chronological periods and cultural backgrounds. It reveals the different perceptions of human groups, from hunter-gatherer communities to state-run societies. It should be viewed as a complex phenomenon, where multiple inter pretative approaches are more than comprehensible...

A estátua-menir do Pedrão ou de São Bartolomeu do mar (Esposende, Noroeste de P...

[Introdução] A estátua-­‐menir do Pedrão, publicada na década de 70 do século XX como estátua-­‐menir de São Bartolomeu do Mar e inserida, cronologicamente, no Neo-Calcolítico (Jorge, 1978), foi posteriormente republicada com maior detalhe (Jorge et al. 1986). Consta no Portal do Arqueólogo com o CNS 11114 e foi classificado como imóvel de Interesse Público (Decreto 26‐A/92, DR, I Série‐B, n.º 126, de 1-06-1992...

Preservando a memória das pedras

Para as comunidades do passado o mundo “físico” seria entendido como cheio de propriedades significantes. No seguimento dos trabalhos de Ingold (2000), Bradley (2000, 2009), ou Scarre (2009), o que hoje vemos como material inerte seria considerada “viva”. Essa será a presente perspetiva de abordagem. Certos afloramentos naturais estão associados a lendas ou crenças muitas vezes ligadas a criaturas mágicas ...

Recorded places, experienced places: some remarks about the Holocene Rock Art o...

Shape and meaning: engraved weapons as materialisations of the Calcolithic / Ea...

This work aims to study the context of engraved weapons dating back to the Late Chalcolithic/ Early Bronze Age, located in the South-west of Galicia and North-west of Portugal. It is assumed that prehistoric and premodern societies experience the surrounding physical world and its forms as full of meanings, and not as simple sets of random entities. The physical elements forming the landscape, such as rivers, m...

La estela de guerrero y la estela antropomorfa de Pedra Alta (Castrelo de Val, ...

El propósito de este artículo es describir una estela descubierta en el municipio de Castrelo do Val (Ourense) y realizar un primer análisis sobre su iconografía, estilo y cronología. Esta estela presenta una serie de grabados muy semejantes a los de las estelas de guerrero del sudoeste y unas de escotaduras que confieren a la piedra un aspecto vagamente antropomorfo. Se propone la existencia de tres posibles m...

O conjunto de gravuras rupestres de Santo Adrião (Caminha, Portugal): embarcaçõ...

Este artigo pretende dar a conhecer os primeiros resultados dos trabalhos de limpeza, decalque, levantamento fotogramétrico e escavação desenvolvidos no caos de blocos graníticos de Santo Adrião, no concelho de Caminha. Os ditos trabalhos permitiram identificar 11 afloramentos com gravuras rupestres, alguns deles com motivos pouco frequentes na arte rupestre do Norte de Portugal. Os motivos registados correspon...

Prehistoric Rock Art and Landscape: the outcrops and its forms were certainly n...

The aim of this paper is to focus the importance of dialog between outcrops morphology and prehistoric motifs engraved or inscribed in them. Altogether, these elements form a well-adapted methodology that contributes to interpretation of rock art and prehistoric landscapes. The theoretical framework was based in the landscape assumptions proposed by C. Tilley (2002): “physical” world is not simply made of inert...

To where do the horses run? A dialogue between signs and matter in the rock car...

The aim of this paper is to present the dialogue that exists between the morphology of granite outcrops, its geoforms and the motifs engraved or inscribed in them. It is assumed that the outcrops were not an inert material or a simple surface for carvings but instead acting agents that contributed to the meaning of these places. One case study, which clearly illustrates these assumptions, is Fornelos, in the pa...