Do You Hear What I See? Analyzing Visibility and Audibility in the Rock Art Landscape of the Alicante Mountains of Spain
Financiación FP7 / Fp7 Funds
Resumen: This article examines the relationship between rock art landscapes and perception. It pays particular attention to vision and hearing, the two key senses for landscape awareness. Following Chippindale’s (2004) suggestion regarding the importance of scale in the study of rock art landscapes, a distinction is made between the adjacent landscape and the broader territorial scale. Several methodological improvements are suggested, including the importance of clipping viewsheds in GIS analysis and measuring directionality instead of orientation of the rock art shelters. As a case-study our study explores the rock art landscape of the Alicante mountains during the Neolithic period (c. 5600 to 2800 cal BC). A new interpretation of how the cognitive and symbolic behavior of communities changed over time is offered. We argue that the analysis of perception in rock art landscapes can provide novel ways of understanding communities’ distinctive appropriation of their landscapes, linking both the tangible and intangible aspects of their culture.
Idioma: Inglés
DOI: 10.1086/692103
Año: 2017
Publicado en: JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH 73, 2 (2017), 181-213
ISSN: 0091-7710

Factor impacto JCR: 0.605 (2017)
Categ. JCR: ANTHROPOLOGY rank: 59 / 85 = 0.694 (2017) - Q3 - T3
Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.344 - Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (Q2) - Anthropology (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/627351/EU/Sounds of Rock Art. Archaeoacoustics and post-palaeolithic Schematic art in the Western Mediterranean/SONART
Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

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