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Rock‐art and the transition to farming. The Neolithic landscape of the central Mediterranean coast of Spain
Author(s) -
Fairén Sara
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
oxford journal of archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1468-0092
pISSN - 0262-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2004.00199.x
Subject(s) - geography , archaeology , mediterranean climate , settlement (finance) , landscape archaeology , period (music) , character (mathematics) , schematic , variation (astronomy) , history , landscape design , environmental resource management , art , physics , environmental science , geometry , mathematics , electronic engineering , world wide web , computer science , astrophysics , engineering , payment , aesthetics
Summary. This paper deals with the analysis of stylistic variation between the different rock‐art traditions that coexisted in the central Mediterranean coastal area of Spain in the Neolithic period – the Macro Schematic tradition, the Schematic tradition and the Levantine tradition. The stylistic variation is analyzed in different scales from the panel with its compositions and superimpositions, to the shelter – shared or exclusive – and the landscape, focussing on patterns of distribution and relationships with settlement sites. This stylistic analysis enables us to study the chronological aspects of the process of Neolithization; while the symbolic character of these marks on the landscape offers an insight into the perception and use of space by the communities who made them.