UNION INTERNATIONALE DÊS SCIENCES PREHISTORIQUES ET PROTOHISTORIQUES INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR PREHISTORIC AND PROTOHISTORÍC SCIENCES
PROCEEDINGS OF THE XV WORLD CONGRESS (LISBON, 4-9 SEPTEMBER 2006) ACTES DU XV CONGRES MONDIAL (LISBONNE, 4-9 SEPTEMBRE 2006) Series Editor: Luiz Oosterbeek VOL. 25
uispp XV congresso
Session WS34
Symbolism in Rock Art Edited by
Fernando Coimbra Léo Dubal
BAR International Series 1793 2008
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BAR S1793 Proceedings of the XV World Congress of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences Actes du XV Congrès Mondial de Ilinion Internationale dês Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Outgoing President: Vítor Oliveira Jorge Outgoing Secretary General: Jean Bourgeois Congress Secretary General: Luiz Oosterbeek (Series Editor) Incoming President: Pedro Ignacio Shmitz Incoming Secretary General: Luiz Oosterbeek Symbolism in RockArt. Vol. 25, Session WS34 © UISPP / IUPPS and authors 2008 ISBN 978 l 4073 0281 2 Signed papers are the responsibility of their authors alone. Lês texts signés sont de Ia seule responsabilité de sés auteurs. Contacts : Secretary of U.I.S.P.P, - International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Av. Dr. Cândido Madureira 13, 2300 TOMAR Email:
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Fernando Augusto Coimbra and Léo Dubal
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Faceless anthropomorphic symbols: The shift from men to gods Léo Dubal
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The pentagram in rock art: Some interpretive possibilities Fernando Augusto Coimbra
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A Contribution to the understanding of spirals and lozenges in the rock art of Neolithic Britain and Ireland G. Terence Meaden
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The buli horn symbolism in Dionysus cult as coming out from the prehistoric rock art íconography George Dimitriadis
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Footpnnt & handprint symbols: Having or Being? Léo Dubal
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Cupmarks and triangles in British Neolithic art with particular attention to three triangular portable stones from Avebury's eastern hills, each with a cupmark at the apex G. Terence Meaden
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On the symbolism of net patterned and ruled rectangles from the Neolithic to the iron age Adolfo Zavaroni
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Open air rock art in the Ceira and Alva river valleys: Some symbols Nuno Miguel C. Ribeiro
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Mount Pindo in Galicia and the prehistoric petroglyphs José Luis Galovart Carrera
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