Prehistoric Rock Art of Atlantic Europe
The Ancients
History Hit
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🗓️ 3 July 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Dozens of incredible examples of prehistoric rock art have been found across western Europe in recent decades - but what do they mean?
Artworks can be discovered all along the Atlantic seaboard, from Spain to Scotland, where one stunning example was uncovered just last year. Ancient peoples left traces of their prehistoric cultures across the length and breadth of the landscape - but what does this art reveal about them?
In this episode Tristan is joined by Dr Joana Valdez-Tullett to discover more about the mysterious world of Atlantic rock art.
Joana's book: https://www.barpublishing.com/design-and-connectivity.html
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| 0:00.0 | It's the entrance on History Hit. I'm Tristan Hughes your host and in today's |
| 0:12.5 | podcast. Well I'm doing this intro from a beach in southern Italy. We are here with History |
| 0:17.5 | Hit for a special series of documentaries near by Pompeii, that incredible, large, |
| 0:22.8 | logical size. We've got lots of content recorded now and including several interviews |
| 0:27.9 | which we cannot wait to release on the ancients in the weeks ahead. So look forwards to those |
| 0:33.5 | coming to the ancients in the coming months. Now in today's podcast we're going to be talking |
| 0:37.5 | about something completely different. I wish I could do a longer intro than I can but I just |
| 0:41.7 | have to summarize it now because we're talking all about Atlantic Rock Art with Dr. Joanna Valdez |
| 0:47.9 | Tullitz. Now Atlantic Rock Art, well what is that? Well this is prehistoric rock art, various |
| 0:52.6 | kinds you find across the seaboard or the Atlantic Ocean stretching from Scotland to England |
| 0:58.9 | to Portugal to Spain and so on and so forth. It is a really interesting topic. It comes in all |
| 1:04.8 | shapes and all sizes as Joanna explains today. Lots of mysteries still surrounding it but we cover |
| 1:09.6 | a lot in this chat, varying from old discoveries to a brand new discovery made in Kilmarton Glen in |
| 1:15.3 | Scotland only just last year. So I really do hope you enjoy. With our further ado to talk all about |
| 1:21.1 | Atlantic Rock Art, here's Joanna. Joanna, it is great to have you on the podcast today. |
| 1:26.8 | It's great to be here. Thank you. It's about time on the ancients we've covered |
| 1:30.3 | rock art and Atlantic rock art in particular. It seems just really interesting part of archaeology |
| 1:36.5 | to learn more about these people living thousands of years ago in the Neolithic times. |
| 1:41.2 | Yeah, we now think that it was created in the Neolithic although there are some chronology issues. |
| 1:47.3 | Chronology with rock art is always a little bit complicated and especially with Atlantic |
| 1:52.1 | art and specific because it's carved, it's in the landscape. We don't really have any associated |
| 1:58.4 | like stratigraphies or contexts so it can be really difficult to sort out when these things were made |
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