The Gower Peninsula, in south Wales, has more than 95 caves excavated in the limestone, many of them with prehistoric records and four of them studied by the First Art project team.
One of them, Bacon Hole, a large sea cave on the south coast of Gower, has an important palaeoenvironmental record, but it is only partially understood because there are no lithic artefacts. However, there are cave paintings on the walls of a side chamber that could be dated.
The talk will present the fragmentary history of Bacon Hole archeology and explain why Upper Paleolithic communities produced this rock art there.
speakers
George Nash
Archaeologist & specialist in Prehistoric and Contemporary art
Convener of the Welsh Rock art Organization
Associate Professor at Geosciences Center of Coimbra University, Earth and Memory Institute, Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT)
Honorary Research Fellow within the Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, University of Liverpool