Siega Verde

Siega Verde
	Engravings of animals.
	Shown within Castile and León
Location	Serranillo, Villar de la Yegua, Castile and León, Spain
Coordinates	40°41′51″N 6°39′40″W / 40.69750°N 6.66111°W
Part of	Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde
Area	0.9 ha (2.2 acres)

Siega Verde (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsjeɣa ˈβeɾðe]) is an archaeological site in Serranillo, Villar de la Yegua, province of Salamanca, in Castile and León, Spain. It was added to the Côa Valley Paleolithic Art site in the World Heritage List in 2010.

The site consists of a series of rock carvings, discovered in 1988 by professor Manuel Santonja Gómez, during an inventory campaign of archaeological sites in the valley of the Águeda river.^[1] Subjects include equids, aurochs, deer and goats, among the most common ones, as well as bison, reindeer and the woolly rhinoceros, which were not yet extinct at the time.

The engravings date to the Gravettian culture of the Upper Palaeolithic (circa 20,000 years ago). There are also more recent, anthropomorphic representations, dating to the Magdalenian age (c. 9,000 years ago). There is a total of 91 panels, spanning some 1 kilometers of rock.

References

↑ de Balbín Behrmann, Rodrigo (2014), Smith, Claire (ed.), "Siega Verde Rock Art Sites", Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, New York, NY: Springer, pp. 6651–6652, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_577, ISBN 978-1-4419-0465-2, retrieved 2022-12-09

Bibliography

Balbín Behrmann, Rodrigo de; Alcolea González, Javier; Santonja, Manuel; Pérez Martín, Rosario (1991). "Siega Verde (Salamanca). Yacimiento paleolítico al aire libre" (PDF). Del Paleolítico a la Historia. Museo de Salamanca.
Bednarik, Robert G. (2009). "Fluvial erosion of inscriptions and petroglyphs at Siega Verde, Spain" (PDF). Journal of Archaeological Science. 36: 2365–2373. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2009.06.019.
Vázquez Marcos, Carlos (2011). "Grafías postpaleolíticas en el yacimiento de Siega Verde (Salamanca)" (PDF). Actas das IV Jornadas de Jovens em Investigaçao Arqueológica. Vol. 1. pp. 127–132. ISBN 978-989-97666-2-4.
Vázquez Marcos, Carlos (2019). "El arte Paleolítico de Siega Verde (Serranillo, Salamanca, España): Una sintética visión en el trigésimo aniversario de su descubrimiento". Estudos Do Quaternário / Quaternary Studies (19): 63–82. doi:10.30893/eq.v0i19.180. hdl:10400.26/27782. Archived from the original on 21 March 2020.

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[1] Balbín Behrmann, Rodrigo (2014), Smith, Claire (ed.), "Siega Verde Rock Art Sites", Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, New York, NY: Springer, pp. 6651–6652, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_577, ISBN 978-1-4419-0465-2, retrieved 2022-12-09

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