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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Thierry Aubry ,
Xavier Mangado Llach ,
Jorge David Sampaio  and
Farid Sellami
Thierry Aubry
Affiliation:
Parque Arqueológico do Vale do Côa, Ministério da Cultura, Avenida Gago Coutinho 19b, 5150 Vila Nova Foz Côa, Portugal.
Xavier Mangado Llach
Affiliation:
Seminari d'Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques, University of Barcelona, Baldiri Reixac s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
Jorge David Sampaio
Affiliation:
Parque Arqueológico do Vale do Côa, Ministério da Cultura, Avenida Gago Coutinho 19b, 5150 Vila Nova Foz Côa, Portugal.
Farid Sellami
Affiliation:
U.E.R. Dynamique des Milieux et Organisation Spatiale, INA P-G, BP 1, 78850 Grignon, France.
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A study of the differential preservation of the famous Côa 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.

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rock artCôa ValleyUpper Palacolithicdifferential preservationclimateresource exploitation
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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 291 , March 2002 , pp. 62 - 76
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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