El arte rupestre de la fachada mediterráneaentre la tradición epipaleolítica y la expansión neolítica

Abstract

The Levantine Arr is characterised by naturalisric depictions of people and animals, by hunting scenes showing men with bows and arrows and hurt animals. It has been considered to show the hunting and gathering Epipalaeolithic way of life. In addition, two more different art traditions are known in the Mediterranean façade of the Iberian Peninsula. The Macroschematic Art, with a very restricted distribution, shows the new Neolithic religious mentality of Mediterranean origin. On the other hand, rhe Schematic Art has mixed features of the Neolithic and Copper Age imagery. In the last decades, within the model of cultural duality, the Neolithic groups were considered the authors of the Macroschematic and the first Schematic Art, while the Levantine Art was made by the Epipalaeolithic groups adopting the Neolithic way of life. Now, with the study of the superimpositions, the art on porrable brackets, and of the process of neolithisation itself, we may say that the Levantine Art was also made by the first Neolithic Communities.