NEW SITES OF LEVANTINE AND SCHEMATIC ART IN THE SURROUNDINGS OF THE OLIVANAS AND ROYUELO RAVINES IN THE ALBARRACÍN MOUNTAIN RANGE

Abstract

The aim of this work is to present five new rock art sites, with the presence of Levantine and schematic prehistoric art. The new sites are located in the Sierra de Albarracín, most of them in the area around the Toros del Barranco de las Olivanas shelter. In the description of the various shelters, the painted panels and the figures of anthropomorphs, archers, equids and cervids in a naturalistic style are listed. Other panels document other representations of humans, fauna and schematic signs whose parallels and relationships are to be found in the known sites in the localities of Albarracín, Bezas and Tormón, as well as in the shelters studied in the Las Cuerdas de Cuenca mountain range. The chronology of these representations, taking into account the studies carried out in these localities, must be placed in a wide space between the Ancient Neolithic and the beginning of the Bronze Age.