Images in Stone in Prehistory and Protohistory

Sala de Atos (Conference Hall) 
Instituto de Ciências Sociais 
Universidade do Minho 
Campus de Gualtar, Braga 
November 30, 2016 

The different types of social and political organisations have used the stone, recurrently, as an element socially active. Through its transformation, they have transmitted images that function as signs and symbols, express and operate the imagery, ideology, cosmogony and in the symbolic of power. In this perspective, stone images were used to produce collective identities, to defined territories and to give meaning to the Prehistoric and Protohistoric landscapes. [...] imagesinstone