Examinando por Autor "Torra, Guadalupe"

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    Prehistoric Fine-Line Rock Engravings in Tamanart (Morocco): Tachokalt and Anou L’haj
    (Universidad Mohamed V, 2021-05-17) Mas Cornellá, Martí; Lemjidi, Abdelkhalek; Maura, Rafael; Solís Delgado, Mónica; Oumouss, Ahmed; Torra, Guadalupe; Bernáldez, Eloísa; García Viñas, Esteban; Asmahri, El Mahfoud; Pérez, Javier; Pérez, Pedro Pablo; González, Begoña
    In this article we isolate and analyse different graphic expressions executed with incised fine and very fine lines (stone blocks or vertical walls) in the Tamanart valley (South Morocco) which are located in two of its prehistoric art sites: Tachokalt and Anou L’haj. These present extremely patinated motifs, some zoomorphous figures whose species can not be identified, and some other ones depicting gazelles, aurochs, antelopes, ostriches and sinuous shapes (meanders) that have nothing to do with the rest of depictions registered in the area of our study (Tamanart valley) and which, at the same time, present a certain techno-stylistic and conceptual uniformity according to their conventionality and iconographic structures. From the graphic sequence that we propose for this area, which is in turn based on thematic, typological, technical and stylistic parameters, and also taking into account other aspects such as taphonomic processes, superpositions or spatial distribution, we consider these motifs to be the oldest of the series and we point out graphic parallelisms with the prehistoric art of the Iberian Peninsula, contemplating both the possibility of contacts between the south of Europe and the north of Africa as well as the achievement of similar results independently on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar.
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    Relative and Absolute Chronologies, Iconographic Sequences. Pigments and Pictorial Micro-Stratigraphies: Aouinet Azguer 1 Rock Paintings
    (Universidad Mohamed V, 2023-06-22) Mas Cornellá, Martí; Lemjidi, Abdelkhalek; Solís Delgado, Mónica; Maura, Rafael; Parra, Enrique; Pablo Pérez, Pedro; Jawhari, Tariq; Oumouss, Ahmed; Asmahri, El Mahfoud; Oulmakki, Naima; Torra, Guadalupe; Pérez, Javier; García, María; Maximiano Castillejo, Alfredo Miguel
    Aouinet Azguer 1 is one of the most representative painting rock shelters in Morocco due to the quantity and characteristics of the images on display, which were carried out over an extended time lapse. In Aouinet Azguer 1 and 12, we find some zoomorphous figures outlined in red whose composition, size, style and technique bear no relation to the rest of the motifs. These figures correspond to an early chronocultural first phase, they were painted choosing privileged or central positions and in most cases we are not able to identify them since, even if by their volumetric shape the images seem to follow a naturalist tendency, their execution is highly conventional. In this study, the AMS 14C dating was possible on an anthropomorph of the third phase also painted in red (3770 to 3650 Cal BC, minimum age), on the basis of a well-known technique (oxalates dating). These results were completed using a methodology that combines physicochemical and micro-stratigraphic analyses used to interpret this dating, which is difficult to get it. Considering the need to put in first place the preservation of the rock paintings under study we could not get another one. Furthermore, a meaningful number of questions arise related to dating and cultural relationship to the first pictorial phase which has been defined upon traditional archaeological criteria, which we intend to propose as our leading hypothesis, by means of the analysis of archaeological environment from the Atlantic area, proposing a probable date (Later Stone Age-Early Holocene).