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Abstract: Penascosa is one of the most remarkable Rock Art sites of Vale do Côa Archaeological Park. It's an open-air site, that combines a great number of engraved rocks. These engravings were made by pecking, scratching and abrading techniques, and combination of some of these. In the context of Vale do Côa Rock Art, Penascosa is one of the three biggest nucleous, together with Quinta da Barca and Canada do Inferno sites. In Penascosa are represented engravings dating from all palaeolithic epochs, namelly rock 3, which presents a long figure stratigraphy, animated figures, and a rare mothif of palaeolithical rock art: a fish representation. It's visible a rare technique, made by surface abrading. There are also engravings dated from Neolithic and Iron Age. |