Cistas decoradas de Galicia y su contexto regional
- R. Penedo Romero 1
- R. Fábregas Valcarce 2
- 1 Instituto de Conservación e Restauración de Bens Culturais de Galicia. S. Domingos de Bonaval
- 2 Conselleria de Cultura da Xunta de Galicia. Departamento Conservación de Bens Culturais
ISSN: 0211-318X
Year of publication: 1997
Issue Title: III COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL DE ARTE MEGALÍTICO A CORUÑA ( 8-13 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1997 ): Actas
Issue: 10
Pages: 333-342
Type: Article
More publications in: Brigantium: Boletín do Museu Arqueolóxico e Histórico da Coruña
Abstract
Cists in Galicia and their regional Contexto Among stone cists of Earlier Bronze Age in NW Iberia several examples are known of carvings on the slabs. The motifs (dots, grinds, triangles) have counterparts in the decoration of orthostats belonging to earlier megalithic tombs, but some are present in the open-air rock carvings too. We suggest that the decoration of cists slabs while related to the contemporary open-air rock carvings shows less iconographic variety due to the specialised nature of these structures. At the same time, a possible phenomenon of bricolage might be postulated, by which a motif (sets of triangles) of neolithic ancestry is reused in the Early Bronze Age conferring him a new meaning, related to the definition at this time of social elites and individual status.