TY - JOUR
T1 - Landmark of the past in the Antequera megalithic landscape: a multi-disciplinary approach to the Matacabras rock art shelter
AU - Rogerio-Candelera, Miguel Ángel
AU - Ramírez, Primitiva Bueno
AU - Balbín-Behrmann, Rodrigo de
AU - Dias, M. Isabel
AU - Sanjuán, Leonardo García
AU - Coutinho, Mathilda Larsson
AU - Rodríguez, José Antonio Lozano
AU - Miller, Ana Z.
AU - Pike, Alistair W.
AU - Standish, Christopher D.
AU - Prudêncio, M. Isabel
AU - Rodrigues, Ana Luísa
AU - Arranz, José María de la Rosa
AU - Gaspar, Diego
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/5876/147266/PT#
This study has been funded by the project of "Nature, Society and Monumentality: High Resolution Archaeological Investigations on the Megalithic Landscape of Antequera" (HAR2013-45149-P) (2014-2017), sponsored within the National R&D Plan of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (Spanish Government). It has also been carried out within the project "Societies, Territories and Landscapes in the Prehistory of Antequera (Malaga)" (2013-2018), approved by the Ministry of Culture of the Andalusian Government.C2TN/IST
PY - 2018/7/1
Y1 - 2018/7/1
N2 - The background of this paper is the biographical relationship between the Menga dolmen and La Peña de los Enamorados mountain (a conspicuous and highly-recognisable natural formation), both part of the Antequera megalithic landscape. Our main aim is to provide a high-resolution characterisation of the Matacabras rock art shelter, located on the northern side of La Peña de los Enamorados. This is achieved through a photogrammetric topographic survey, a detailed assessment of the graphic motifs identified through the use of digital image processing and various types of physical and chemical analysis, a geo-chemical characterisation of pottery found on its surface, and a comparative stylistic analysis of its motifs. Our study suggests that Matacabras (and the site of Piedras Blancas I, located just below it), played an important role in the genesis of Menga, which perhaps makes it the most important rock art location of Spanish Late Prehistory.
AB - The background of this paper is the biographical relationship between the Menga dolmen and La Peña de los Enamorados mountain (a conspicuous and highly-recognisable natural formation), both part of the Antequera megalithic landscape. Our main aim is to provide a high-resolution characterisation of the Matacabras rock art shelter, located on the northern side of La Peña de los Enamorados. This is achieved through a photogrammetric topographic survey, a detailed assessment of the graphic motifs identified through the use of digital image processing and various types of physical and chemical analysis, a geo-chemical characterisation of pottery found on its surface, and a comparative stylistic analysis of its motifs. Our study suggests that Matacabras (and the site of Piedras Blancas I, located just below it), played an important role in the genesis of Menga, which perhaps makes it the most important rock art location of Spanish Late Prehistory.
KW - Biographies
KW - Digital image analysis
KW - Iberian schematic rock art
KW - Megaliths
KW - U-Th dating
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85047396482&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jas.2018.05.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jas.2018.05.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85047396482
SN - 0305-4403
VL - 95
SP - 76
EP - 93
JO - Journal of Archaeological Science
JF - Journal of Archaeological Science
ER -