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Testing recipes: an experimental approach to paint production processes in Levantine rock art (Spain)

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Over more than a century, several proposals have been made on the composition and technical features of the pictorial recipes used by Levantine prehistoric painters. In this paper all these proposals are surveyed and tested through systematic experiments to determine the technical affordance of pigments and binders in different pictorial recipes. Experimental results were then used as independent analytical parameters employed as diagnostic criteria to systematically study an archaeological sample of nine sites located in the Maestrazgo region (Spain) and their surroundings. Results reveal that out of 112 experimental recipes, only 16 afforded the production of paintings technically similar to Levantine rock art.

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Oxford University, Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art.

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cc by (c) Santos da Rosa, Neemias et al., 2023

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Articles publicats en revistes (Història i Arqueologia)

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Testing recipes: an experimental approach to paint production processes in Levantine rock art (Spain)