Bronze Age boat carvings point to maritime links from Iberia to Scandinavia

Bronze Age Boat Carvings Suggest Ancient Contacts Between Iberia and Scandinavia

Bronze Age boat carvings in northwest Iberia. Credit: Marta Díaz-Guardamino et al. / CC BY 4.0 A Bronze Age boat carved into rock in northwest Iberia may show that ancient sailors, traders and local communities were far more connected than once thought. New research suggests several boat images found in Portugal and Galicia share close links with Scandinavian rock art, pointing to long-distance contact across Europe’s Atlantic coast thousands of…

Bronze Age Boat Artwork Analyzed

DURHAM, ENGLAND—Researchers led by Marta Díaz-Guardamino of Durham University created 3D models of rock art depicting boats found at 12 sites in northwestern Spain and Portugal, according to a statement released by Durham University. The team then compared them to similar carvings found in Scandinavia. The researchers noted that all of the Iberian images had been carved in an area where water was visible in the landscape. They determined that th…

Ancient rock carvings reveal Bronze Age Europe was far more connected than thought

Boats may have also been more than just a means of transport, study hints

Bronze Age boat carvings point to maritime links from Iberia to Scandinavia

Bronze Age rock carvings suggest communities across Europe were far more connected than previously thought, according to a new study led by the Department of Archaeology. The research compared ancient rock carvings, or "petroglyphs," of boats across 12 sites in Northwest Iberia (modern Spain and Portugal) with well-documented petroglyphs in Southern Scandinavia (Sweden and Denmark). The findings are published in the journal PLOS One.

Rock art suggests Bronze Age maritime links across Europe

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