Projects
2019 - Portable rock art from the Northwest Iberia: moving gestures transforming ideas
This project aims to understand the portable-rock art from the Northwest Iberia, with a special focus given towards the Palaeolithic engraved plaquettes from the Sabor Valley. Three major scientific questions are behind our research project. The first concerns the archaeological contexts and territorial distribution of portable art: to what type of occupation are plaquettes associated to (caves, open-air sites) and how can we interpret their unequal distribution? The second is related to the plaquettes themselves as the material support for the engravings: are the plaquettes knapped, polished or purposely broken? Do they have any relationship with fire structures? Were there any local or exogenous raw materials used? The third entails the motifs: what kind of typology, style, engraving technics, organization and overlaps can be found? What are the differences or similarities existing with other archaeological sites? This project has two main objectives. The first is to become a leading international scientific project, by addressing portable rock-art at a large temporal and geographical scale by adopting new methodologies. The second is to promote the local perception of cultural heritage as a clear catalyst for the preservation and strengthening of economical and social development.
CEECIND/02913/2017
FCT
Archaeology
May of 2019
2021
Sofia Figueiredo