1. Rock art which is not so Levantine. The ritual survival of painted rock shelters: the example of la Vacada (Castellote, Teruel)
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Manuel Martínez Bea
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Archeology ,Celtibérico ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Context (language use) ,Ancient history ,Indigenous ,Ebro Middle Valley ,lcsh:CC1-960 ,Parallels ,Valle Medio del Ebro ,media_common ,Acumulación figurativa ,Art ,Arte rupestre ,Celtiberic ,Iberic ,Área de influencia ,Ibérico ,Ethnology ,lcsh:Archaeology ,Rock Art ,Pottery ,Rock art ,Figurative accumulation ,Contact area - Abstract
In this paper we present four figures of the shelter of La Vacada, the stylistic characteristics and graphic conventions of which allow us to classify them as non- Levantine Rock Art. We suggest the possibility that these figures could belong to a proto-historic date with clear hellenistic-roman influence, emphasising the indigenous cultural and geographic context, which was as much celtiberian as Iberian.. We also analyse several decorated pottery fragments from Numancia and some iberian sites as parallels for the figures studied.En este artículo presentamos cuatro figuras dentro del conjunto del abrigo de La Vacada cuyas características estilísticas y convenciones gráficas permite descartar su pertenencia al arte levantino. Sugerimos la posibilidad de que estas representaciones pudieran adscribirse a época protohistórica ya avanzada con evidentes influencias helenístico- romanas, enfatizando el contexto geográfico y cultural indígena, tanto celtibérico como ibérico, al que se asocian. Se analizan algunos fragmentos cerámicos decorados numantinos e ibéricos como paralelos de las figuras estudiadas.
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- 2004
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