Open AccessHillforts, rocks and warriors
Author(s) -
Javier Rodríguez-Corral
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
documenta praehistorica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1854-2492
pISSN - 1408-967X
DOI - 10.4312/dp.45-12
Subject(s) - liminality , context (archaeology) , ideology , politics , bronze age , art , semiotics , iron age , ancient history , visual arts , history , aesthetics , archaeology , political science , linguistics , philosophy , law
During the Late Iron Age, monumental stone statues of warriors were established in the northwest of Iberia, ‘arming’ landscapes that ultimately encouraged specific types of semiotic ideologies in the region. This paper deals with how these statues on rocks not only worked in the production of liminality in the landscape – creating transitional zones on it –, but also how they functioned as liminal gateways to the past, absorbing ideas from the Bronze Age visual culture up to the Late Iron Age one, in order to create emotional responses to a new socio-political context.