We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Estados alterados de consciencia en el arte postpaleolítico de la Península Ibérica: rituales de éxtasis, plantas psicoactivas y dinámicas sociales.
- Authors
Doce, Elisa Guerra
- Abstract
This paper offers a series of reflections on and interpretations of certain post-Paleolithic art styles from the Iberian Peninsula. The author argues that some Neolithic and Copper Age graphic designs depicted on rock panels and on a diverse group of portable pieces may have been inspired by states of trance, based on the combination of possible entoptic motifs and shamanic scenes in their iconographies. With support from the archaeobotanical record, the paper explores the role of psychoactive plants in creating altered states of consciousness from the Early Neolithic (ca. sixth millennium cal BC) onward. These practices are discussed in the context of the profound socioeconomic and ideological changes that resulted from the introduction of a production-based economy during the Neolithic period and the increasing social differences reflected in the archeological record of the Iberian Peninsula from that time forward.
- Subjects
IBERIAN Peninsula; PREHISTORIC art; PSYCHOTROPIC plants; HOLOCENE Epoch; PENINSULAS; CONSCIOUSNESS
- Publication
Boletín del Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
0716-1530
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.56522/BMCHAP.0010010280003