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  • Violence in Neolithic Iberia: new readings of Levantine rock art

  • Esther López-Montalvo
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 89 / Issue 344 / April 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    08 April 2015, pp. 309-327
    Print publication:
    April 2015

  • How violent was life in Neolithic society, and was there anything resembling organised warfare? Recent research has largely overturned ideas of peaceful farming societies. Spanish Levantine rock art offers a unique insight into conflict in Neolithic society, with images of violence, real or imagined, being acted out in scenes preserved in rockshelters. Combining this body of data with evidence from the archaeological record, a new way of understanding the imagery in rock art is here proposed. Ethnographic and anthropological methodologies allow the author to show how socio-cultural behaviours and individual social roles can be read from rock art.