RT Journal Article
T1 The Cañaveral de León stela (Huelva, Spain). A monumental sculpture in a landscape of settlements and pathways
A1 Rivera Jiménez, Timoteo
A1 García Sanjuan, Leonardo
A1 Díaz Guardamino, Marta
A1 Donaire Romero, Teodosio
A1 Morales González, Juan Antonio
A1 Lozano Rodríguez, José Antonio
A1 Rogerio Candelera, Miguel Ángel
A1 Bermejo Meléndez, Javier
A1 Aguilera Collado, Elena
AB A newly discovered prehistoric stela from Cañaveral de León (Huelva, Spain) is studied through a combination of scientific methods, including thin section petrography and lithological contextualisation, various state-of-the-art digital imaging techniques for the analysis of the engraved motifs (3D modelling and Reflectance Transformation Imaging), and detection of pigments on its surface (Principal Components Analysis, HSI-contrast stretch, ferric pigments index and algebraic operations between bands), as well as archaeological surveys aimed at establishing the landscape context the stela was part of. The results reveal this stela is analogous to a larger series of late prehistoric sculptures portraying personages with ‘headdresses’, largely concentrated in the Iberian south-west and often connected to Bronze Age settlements and burial sites. In addition, the Cañaveral de León stela is closely associated to an old pathway that has had a historical prominence in terms of long-distance mobility, connecting various regions of western Spain in a South-North direction.
PB Elsevier
SN 0305-4403
SN 1095-9238 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20723
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20723
LA eng
NO Rivera Jiménez, T., García Sanjuán, L., Díaz-Guardamino, M., Donaire Romero, T., Morales González, J. A., Lozano Rodríguez, J. A., Rogerio Candelera, M. Á., Bermejo Meléndez, J., & Aguilera Collado, E. (2021). The Cañaveral de León stela (Huelva, Spain). A monumental sculpture in a landscape of settlements and pathways. In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (Vol. 40, p. 103251). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103251
NO We also wish to acknowledge the professional support of theCSIC Interdisciplinary Thematic Platform Open Heritage: Research andSociety (PTI-PAIS). This project was partly funded by the AndalusianRegional Government annual research grant to the Research GroupATLAS (HUM-694), of the University of Sevilla.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026