La Tecnología del Arte Rupestre Levantino: aproximación experimental para el estudio de sus cadenas operativas

Identificador:  TDX:2993

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX2993

Autors:  Santos da Rosa, Neemias

Resum:
This thesis aims to characterize the technological production process of Levantine paintings in the Maestrazgo region and bordering area (East of Spain). Through the use of Experimental Archeology and informations from the archaeological, geological and paleoenvironmental record of the study area, the efficiency of 112 pictorial recipes, consisting of pigments and binders, and of 63 painting tools, made with feathers, hairs and plants, was systematically tested. Then, using the recipes and tools classified as the most efficient, experimental replicas of some rock art motifs of the reference sample were made. This procedure allowed to understand the technical and economic aspects involved in the realization of the Levantine representations and the elaboration of inferences referring to the characteristics of their operative chains. The results obtained made evident the high complexity of the Levantine Rock Art's production process, showing that the image's creation on the walls of the shelters implies much more than knowledge regarding the graphic composition of the representations in themselves, as it requires a deep understanding about the behavior of raw materials, supports, tools and paintings involved in the technical operations that led to their Inglés materialization. Finally, it is hypothesized that there would have been a visible technical homogeneity in the Levantine representations construction's, which would have emerged as aresult of an operative chain of rock art production socially shared by the last groups of hunter-gatherers that occupied the eastern slope of the Iberian Peninsula.