Arte Rupestre y Santuarios. I. Arte rupestre y recintos rituales en la Edad del Hierro
[EN]The following two essays (Rock Art and Shrines in the Iron Age and Images, Text, Landscapes and Ideas: castreño shrines in context), whilist having been conceived autonomously and presented in accordance with a specific and independent internal logic, are in fact closely linked. They study the k...
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| Format: | other |
| Publication Date: | 2003 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repository: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/6757 |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/6757 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Laboratorio de Arqueología del Paisaje Laboratory of Landscape Archaeology Santuarios Shrines Celtas Celts Arte rupestre Rock Art Petróglifos Petroglyphs LaPa |
| Summary: | [EN]The following two essays (Rock Art and Shrines in the Iron Age and Images, Text, Landscapes and Ideas: castreño shrines in context), whilist having been conceived autonomously and presented in accordance with a specific and independent internal logic, are in fact closely linked. They study the known data in Galician archaeological record, put forward only recently. The first essay presents the archaeological data which justifies the definition of a new type of site which has a sacred purpose: that of a shrine. Furthermore, arguments are given for the dating of the site to the Iron Age. The second essay starts with the iconographic motifs found in these very shrines, and analyses them in accordance with the comparative method to show, on the one hand, the conceptual continuity between pre-roman petroglyphs and circular iconography of Mediterranean influence and, on the other, the link between those shrines and motifs with others better known in the European Iron Age which, culturally, are the most part Celtic |
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