Joaquín Salmerón and Primitiva Bueno will lead a seminar this Friday in Cieza on the paintings of the Barranco de Los Grajos
The Siyâsa Museum organizes the seminar ’60 years discovery of the cave paintings of the Barranco de Los Grajos. State of Prehistoric Art in the Southeast and the Levante of the Iberian Peninsula’, which will be held this Friday, November 18, from 9:30 am. It is led by Primitiva Bueno Ramírez, Professor of Prehistory at the University of Alcalá, and by Joaquín Salmerón-Juan, Director of the Historical Heritage Service of the City Council of Cieza.
The municipality of Ciezano includes some 16 stations of prehistoric art with some 30 shelters and painted caves, which is considered the term with the highest rock density in the Region of Murcia. The cave paintings of Barranco de los Grajos, in shelters I and II, were discovered in 1962.
The first note of the discovery was made by the professor of Prehistory at the University of Zaragoza Antonio Beltrán Martínez at the Valcamónica prehistoric rock art symposium in 1968, who later published the book ‘La Cueva de los Grajos y sus pinturas rupestres en Cieza, Murcia’. .
In 1970, Michael Walker carried out archaeological excavations at Shelter II, which is considered to be the site of the oldest ceramics in today’s Murcia region.
Since 1998, Joaquín Salmerón-Juan has published several publications with Joaquín Lomba Maurandi about the three shelters on the site and their cave paintings. Encouraged by the possibilities offered by today’s modern technologies, Joaquín Salmerón-Juan, the archaeologist Teresa Fernández Azorín and the infographic Pedro Lucas Salcedo requested permission in 2021 for a new study from the Ministry of Culture of the Region of Murcia. paintings of the three shelters.
These studies allow a new interpretation of some of the scenes depicted there, the discovery of hitherto unpublished figures, and a new study of the real shape of the figures published in the tracings published with the means and techniques used in 1968 .
Among the seven speakers at the seminar are Dr. Rodrigo de Balbín Behrmann, Emeritus Professor of Prehistory at the University of Alcalá and one of the world’s leading specialists in petroglyphs of the Iberian Peninsula, and Julián Martínez García, archaeologist, doctor of the history of the University of Grenada. García belongs to the GEPRAN (Recent Prehistory Studies in Andalusia) research group at the University of Granada; and is a member of the ICOMOS National Rock Art Committee.
Source: La Verdad
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