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Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain)
Atxurra cave has a decorated assemblage composed of more than a hundred engraved animal depictions. All of them are located in deep parts of the cave and most of them are hidden in raised areas, away from the main path. The main sector is the “Ledge of the Horses”, located at 330 m from the entrance...
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author | Garate, Diego Rivero, Olivia Rios-Garaizar, Joseba Medina-Alcaide, Mª Ángeles Arriolabengoa, Martin Intxaurbe, Iñaki Ruiz-López, Juan F. Marín-Arroyo, Ana Belén Rofes, Juan García Bustos, Paula Torres, Antonio Salazar, Sergio |
author_facet | Garate, Diego Rivero, Olivia Rios-Garaizar, Joseba Medina-Alcaide, Mª Ángeles Arriolabengoa, Martin Intxaurbe, Iñaki Ruiz-López, Juan F. Marín-Arroyo, Ana Belén Rofes, Juan García Bustos, Paula Torres, Antonio Salazar, Sergio |
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description | Atxurra cave has a decorated assemblage composed of more than a hundred engraved animal depictions. All of them are located in deep parts of the cave and most of them are hidden in raised areas, away from the main path. The main sector is the “Ledge of the Horses”, located at 330 m from the entrance of the cave. It is a space of 12 m long and 1.5 m wide, elevated 4 m above the cave floor. This area includes almost fifty engraved and painted animals accompanied by a dozen flint tools, three fireplaces, and around one hundred charcoal fragments from torches. This extraordinary archaeological record allows us to value the complexity of the artistic production inside the caves during the Upper Palaeolithic. Our study has confirmed that there is planning prior to artistic production, both in terms of the iconographic aspects (themes, techniques, formats), its location (visibility, capacity), and the lighting systems. Furthermore, the data indicates the panel was decorated to be seen by third parties from different positions and was expressly illuminated for this purpose. This evidence supports the role of rock art as a visual communication system in Upper Palaeolithic societies. |
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spelling | pubmed-105759692023-10-15 Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain) Garate, Diego Rivero, Olivia Rios-Garaizar, Joseba Medina-Alcaide, Mª Ángeles Arriolabengoa, Martin Intxaurbe, Iñaki Ruiz-López, Juan F. Marín-Arroyo, Ana Belén Rofes, Juan García Bustos, Paula Torres, Antonio Salazar, Sergio Sci Rep Article Atxurra cave has a decorated assemblage composed of more than a hundred engraved animal depictions. All of them are located in deep parts of the cave and most of them are hidden in raised areas, away from the main path. The main sector is the “Ledge of the Horses”, located at 330 m from the entrance of the cave. It is a space of 12 m long and 1.5 m wide, elevated 4 m above the cave floor. This area includes almost fifty engraved and painted animals accompanied by a dozen flint tools, three fireplaces, and around one hundred charcoal fragments from torches. This extraordinary archaeological record allows us to value the complexity of the artistic production inside the caves during the Upper Palaeolithic. Our study has confirmed that there is planning prior to artistic production, both in terms of the iconographic aspects (themes, techniques, formats), its location (visibility, capacity), and the lighting systems. Furthermore, the data indicates the panel was decorated to be seen by third parties from different positions and was expressly illuminated for this purpose. This evidence supports the role of rock art as a visual communication system in Upper Palaeolithic societies. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-10-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10575969/ /pubmed/37833336 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44520-w Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Garate, Diego Rivero, Olivia Rios-Garaizar, Joseba Medina-Alcaide, Mª Ángeles Arriolabengoa, Martin Intxaurbe, Iñaki Ruiz-López, Juan F. Marín-Arroyo, Ana Belén Rofes, Juan García Bustos, Paula Torres, Antonio Salazar, Sergio Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain) |
title | Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain) |
title_full | Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain) |
title_fullStr | Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain) |
title_full_unstemmed | Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain) |
title_short | Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain) |
title_sort | unravelling the skills and motivations of magdalenian artists in the depths of atxurra cave (northern spain) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10575969/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37833336 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-44520-w |
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