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Transcript of an interpretative approach to “devil claw” carvings: the case
PAPERSXXV Valcamonica Symposium 2013
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AN INTERPRETATIVE APPROACH TO “DEVIL CLAW” CARVINGS: THE CASE OF RIVER TUA MOUTH ROCK SHELTER
(ALIJÓ, TRÁS-OS-MONTES, NORTHEAST PORTUGAL)Maria de Jesus Sanches* & Joana de Castro Teixeira*
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THE CASE STUDY: FOZ DO TUA ROCK SHELTER
The archeological site: the outcrop, the rock shelter, the panels, the path and the junction of the Tua and Douro Rivers
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An Interpretative approach to “devil claw” carvings: the case of River Tua Mouth Rock shelter
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An Interpretative approach to “devil claw” carvings: the case of River Tua Mouth Rock shelter
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Fig. 1: Location of Foz do Tua rockshelter (nº1) and of the main paleolithic/epipaleolithic rock art sites in Northwest Iberia and
Northeast of Portugal, including the closest sites of Spain (in river Douro basin). Triangles: animalist paleolithic art;; circles: sites
with “devil claw” depictions.
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Fig. 2: Foz do Tua site view from the opposite riverbank.
the text are indicated: nº 6, 7, 18, 31 (Part A) and panel 2 of
Part B.
Fig. 4: General view of panel 31.
pecked, being the brow tine the only engraved point of its antler.
On the right we see a red deer with its head raised;; from its antler
we recognize the brow and bay tines, as well as the start of the
beam. A head of an auroch was added to the body of the red deer,
being this head later transformed in a horse’s head.
Fig. 6: Detail of the animal heads engraved in the right sector
of panel 31.
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An Interpretative approach to “devil claw” carvings: the case of River Tua Mouth Rock shelter
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Fig. 7: Tracing of panel 7. Depictions consisting in simple single
line scratches, some of them being a little bit deeper, acquiring
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tion and some of deeper incised lines (devil claw).
Fig. 9: Tracing of panel 6 with the indication of the internal
carved “stratigraphic units”.
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Fig. 11: Tracing of panel 18. Devil claw motifs in pair or parallel
incised motifs (some of them clearly articulated with devil claw
depictions and some other ones, represented in grey lines, super-
imposed and earlier than devil claws and other linear motifs).
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ures (devil claws) - in Foz do Tua site.
