Paletas na Arte Rupestre do Noroeste de Portugal. Inventário preliminar

Abstract

Palettes are rare in the rock art of Northwest Portugal. They are found both in Classical Atlantic Art and openair Schematic Art contexts, but also in other contexts of difficult classifications. Although known, there is no inventory of sites with this motif or a typological table of them, despite some subdivision made by Bettencourt (2017a). The cultural and physical contexts, in which they are found, are also not known. The aim of this work is to rectify these absences through a first inventory, the creation of a typology of motifs and an attempt at their spatial and cultural integration.