The local appropriation of warrior ideals in Late Bronze Age Europe: a review of the rock art site of Arroyo Tamujoso 8 and the ‘warrior’ stela of Cancho Roano (Badajoz, Spain)

Diaz-Guardamino, Marta; Ling, Johan; Koch, John; Schulz Paulsson, Bettina; Horn, Christian; Paulsson, Jonas

Abstract

This study offers new data on the local appropriation of the ideals associated with the warrior in Europe during the Late Bronze Age through the new study of the engravings of Cancho Roano and Arroyo Tamujoso 8, located in the Southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, of their supports and landscape contexts. He uses cutting-edge digital technologies to identify some of the most distinctive features of that iconography, revealing various responses to the warrior ideals that were in circulation in Europe during that period. To understand circulation contexts from a local perspective, we also briefly consider the multi-scale connections involved in communities that created warrior stelae in Iberia.

Citation

Diaz-Guardamino, M., Ling, J., Koch, J., Schulz Paulsson, B., Horn, C., & Paulsson, J. (2022). The local appropriation of warrior ideals in Late Bronze Age Europe: a review of the rock art site of Arroyo Tamujoso 8 and the ‘warrior’ stela of Cancho Roano (Badajoz, Spain). Trabajos de Prehistoria, 79(2), 329-345. https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2022.12302

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Mar 16, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Dec 30, 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Deposit Date: Apr 18, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 19, 2023
• Journal: Trabajos de Prehistoria
• Print ISSN: 0082-5638
• Electronic ISSN: 1988-3218
• Publisher: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 79
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 329-345
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2022.12302
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1176125