Marks of Sanctity? Discovery of Rock Art on the Gower Peninsula, South Wales

摘要: AbstractBritain is regarded by some as an Upper Palaeolithic cultural backwater, but this part of northwestern Europe also encountered the ravages Devensian with southern limit ice margin extending a few kilometers north limestone caves on Gower Peninsula, South Wales. Following sudden climatic warming, groups hunter/fisher/gatherers started to utilize sometimes hostile landscape, seasonally occupying many that are cut and shaped into outcropping frequents Peninsula. At time extensive landmass would have replaced much present Bristol Channel (Jacobi 1980). It indeed rare occurrence for Pleistocene rock art be discovered within British Isles, only one authenticated discovery made in 2003 at Church Hole Cave Creswell Crags Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border (Bahn Pettitt 2009). not too fanciful suggest order secure successful hunt or merely revere spiritual b...