Open-air rock-art, territories and modes of exploitation during the Upper Palaeolithic in the Coa Valley (Portugal)

A study of the differential preservation of the famous Coa engravings, in the light of the site of Fariseu, place the distribution of the art in a chronological setting, which is in turn placed within the context of lithic raw material procurement. Key-words: rock art, Coa Valley, Upper Palaeolithic, differential preservation, climate, resource exploitation
The natural environment The Coa River is a left-bank tributary of the Douro, the major watercourse of the north central Iberian cordillera (FIGURE 1) which crosses Iberia from east to [...]