{"id":39928,"date":"2026-10-22T10:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/?p=39928"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:24:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T10:24:21","slug":"documentation-campaign-at-ribeira-de-piscos-revealed-previously-unknown-rock-art-motifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/en\/documentation-campaign-at-ribeira-de-piscos-revealed-previously-unknown-rock-art-motifs\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentation campaign at Ribeira de Piscos revealed previously unknown rock art motifs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top\">In July 2025, a <strong>rock art documentation campaign<\/strong> took place at Ribeira de Piscos, in partnership between the C\u00f4a Parque Foundation and CEAACP, at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top\">The work focused primarily on Upper Palaeolithic engravings, while also covering representations from the Iron Age and the Modern Period. It included night-time tracing, daytime and night-time photographic documentation, and photogrammetric surveys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top\">Detailed analysis of the tracings enabled the identification of previously unknown motifs, including horses and aurochs (wild cattle).<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 [&amp;+p]:mt-4 [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:inline-block [&amp;_strong:has(+br)]:align-top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39952 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/equipa-de-estudo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/equipa-de-estudo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/equipa-de-estudo-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/equipa-de-estudo-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/equipa-de-estudo-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/equipa-de-estudo-860x574.jpg 860w, https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/equipa-de-estudo-580x387.jpg 580w, https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/equipa-de-estudo-1160x774.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/equipa-de-estudo-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/arte-coa.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/equipa-de-estudo.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The campaign involved around ten undergraduate, master\u2019s and doctoral students in Archaeology and Anthropology from the universities of Coimbra, Porto, Santiago de Compostela, Alcal\u00e1 de Henares and Sorbonne. 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