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Author Nash, George

Title The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal Symbolising Animals and Things
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (389 p.)
Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Changes and Dynamics in Western Iberian Prehistoric Rock Art -- 1 The Discovery of Palaeolithic Art in Portugal: The Escoural Cave -- 2 Looking Through Rock Art Eyes: Being Upper Palaeolithic in the Côa Valley and Its Territory of Lithic Raw Material Sourcing -- 3 The Palaeolithic Rock Art of Northern Portugal and Galicia (Spain)
4 Philosophical Mechanics of an Engraved Horse: The Upper Palaeolithic Open-Air Rock Art within the Tagus River Basin, Central Portugal -- 5 From Hunter-Gatherer to Farmer or Something in Between: The Rock Art of Early Holocene -- 6 Understanding the Painted Form: The Archaeometric Studies -- 7 Schematic Art Paintings in Northern Portugal -- 8 Painted Schematic Rock Art within Central and Southern Portugal -- 9 The Tagus River Rock Art (Central Portugal) -- 10 The Guadiana Valley Rock Art Complex -- 11 Picturing in Western Iberian Neolithic Dolmens
12 Atlantic Rock Art of the Northwest Portugal -- 13 Thinking about the Bronze Age Rock Art of Portugal: What's New? -- 14 Iron Age Rock Art: Old and New Figures -- 15 GIS Applications in Rock Art -- Index
Summary The Prehistoric Rock Art of Portugal presents significant interpretive perspectives in Portuguese rock art research and offers an excellent representation of core rock art areas, along with current thinking and interpretations
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Rock paintings -- Portugal
Petroglyphs -- Portugal
Paleolithic period -- Portugal
Paleolithic period
Petroglyphs
Rock paintings
Portugal
Form Electronic book
Author Garcês, Sara
ISBN 9781000955330
1000955338