El sol, símbolo de continuidad y permanencia: un estudio multidisciplinar sobre la figura soliforme en el arte esquemático de la Provincia de Cádiz
By (author) Mercedes Versaci
Paperback (Published)
(May 2019)
ISBN: 9781789691948
7.99 x 10.91 inches
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the soliform figures in schematic cave paintings in the area of Laguna de la Janda and Campo de Gibraltar (Cadiz). Technological, typological, stylistic, semiotic, astronomical, anthropological and landscape aspects of the cave paintings are considered.
La finalidad de este estudio es el analisis de la figura soliforme en el arte rupestre esquematico. Presentamos una investigacion global atendiendo a todos los factores susceptibles de estudio (tecnologicos, tipologicos, estilisticos, semioticos, astronomicos, antropologicos y paisajisticos) de esta figura y de su relacion con el conjunto del arte rupestre esquematico y con las sociedades autoras del mismo. El ambito geografico de nuestro estudio sera el entorno de la Laguna de la Janda y el Campo de Gibraltar (Cadiz). Uno de los argumentos que esgrimimos para la realizacion de esta investigacion es la escasa produccion de estudios realizados en el territorio gaditano en relacion a esta figura- y al arte rupestre en general- que ha sido motivo central en casi todas las religiones o mitologias primitivas desde el nacimiento de las sociedades agropecuarias. La recurrencia de los motivos abstractos dentro del arte rupestre de la zona que nos ocupa, y su perduracion en el tiempo, podria ser indicio de patrones culturales comunes entre las diferentes poblaciones que habitaron nuestra provincia. Pero estos mismos signos tambien se repiten en diferentes partes del mundo. Podriamos estar hablando de aspectos universales de nuestra especie? Somos conscientes que la interpretacion de este simbolo ha estado y esta sujeta a cuestiones subjetivas o intangibles, por consiguiente, no exenta de posibles proyecciones de nuestra propia cultura. Creemos que estamos en condiciones de aproximarnos de una manera cientifica a los aspectos rituales y simbolicos de aquellos que elaboraron estas pinturas, proponiendo una alternativa desde los marcos teoricos de disciplinas como la Etnografia, la Antropologia, la Arqueologia del Paisaje, la Arqueoastronomia y la Semiotica.
Mercedes Versaci received her Ph.D. from the University of Cádiz in 2018 and she is an active member of the research group HUM 812: Studies in Prehistory, Archaeology, Ethnoarchaeology, Anthropology and Cultural Landscape (PAEAPC) at the same institution. Her studies on the rock art of the Province of Cádiz go back to the year 2007, and she has published (in specialist magazines) several researches concerning paintings and funeral customs in recent prehistory. She has participated in various projects on the funerary world in the Province of Cádiz and currently combines these studies with ethnoarchaeological research on the pottery of Rif (Morocco).
- By (author) Mercedes Versaci
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