New observations on a pottery fragment with incised deer from the Cova de l’Or (Beniarés, Alacant)

Abstract

RESUMENLa coloración rojiza de la superficie externa del fragmento cerámico con decoración de cervidos incisos de la Cova de l'Or se ha interpretado tradicionalmente como evidencia de la aplicación de la técnica de la almagra. Sin embargo, el análisis elemental del fragmento y la comparación de los resultados con los obtenidos a partir de otro fragmento con decoración a la almagra del mismo yacimiento, permite cuestionar la utilización de dicha técnica en el primero de ellos. Así mismo, la búsqueda de paralelos para los motivos esquemáticos incisos del vaso, tanto entre las decoraciones cerámicas como en arte parietal, nos lleva a sugerir que más que ciervos pudiera tratarse de representaciones de ciervas. ABSTRACTThe red external surface of a vessel, decorated with an incised group of deer from Cova de l'Or, has been long considered characteristic of the application of the almagra technique. However, the results of the elemental analysis of this fragment, compared with the results of another vessel with almagra decoration from the same site, call into question the application of this technique in the first vessel. In addition, searching for parallels for the schematic incised motifs of the vessel, in both ceramic decorations and rock art, we have concluded that rather than deer the represented animals are hinds.Palabras clave: Cova de l'Or. Neolítico. Decoraciones cerámicas. Análisis elemental. Almagra.

Beswick Creek Cave six decades later: change and continuity in the rock art of Doria Gudaluk

“…As Morphy (1989: 1) observed, there is an important gap between the motifs depicted and the cultural concepts that they may represent. This understanding is embedded in studies of how Aboriginal peoples attribute meanings to art in other, neighbouring parts of northern Australia (Lewis 1988; Morphy 1991; Taçon et al 2003; Domingo Sanz & May 2008; May & Domingo Sanz 2010; David et al 2013), as well as in the theoretical works of Conkey (1987), Gell (1998) and Hodder (1989), among others.…”