The June 2018 issue of Journal of Archaeological Science publishes our paper “Landmark of the past in the Antequera megalithic landscape: a multi-disciplinary approach to the Matacabras rock art shelter”. This paper is a major contribution towards the understanding of Antequera’s complex megalithic landscape, as we examine here the relationship between a natural formation, La Peña, the graphic motifs depicted in the Matacabras shelter, and the orientation of Menga, a major megalithic construction of the Neolithic period. This research has been funded by research grant HAR2013-45149-P (“Nature, Society and Monumentality: High resolution Archaeological Research of the Antequera Megalithic Landscape”) of the Spanish government.
