CENTRAL AND SOUTH LA PALMA
Maarten van Hoek
| RESPONSIBLE VISTOR BEHAVIOUR AT ROCK ART SITES
* Never touch or wet rock art - it is highly damaging * Never chalk or enhance engravings * Do not walk on engraved rock * Leave all archaeological artefacts as they are * Only take photographs, only leave your footsteps The southern and central parts of La Palma also have several rock art sites. Site 4 is situated in a small gorge called Lomo de Fajana just north of El Paso. The engravings are on a verticall NNW facing rock wall that is hard to reach and only in sunlight from 4 pm. Site 5 is the Cueva de Belmaco, an enormous cave that once was inhabited. In front of the cave are a number of decorated boulders that once fell off the north wall of the cave. Site 6 is the Roque de Teneguia, a volcanic vent with some radiating dikes. Part of the engraved outcrop is buried by volcanic ashes from the most recent eruption of one of the two nearby volcanoes. The engravings are much weathered. |
INSTITUTUM CANARIUM (takes a while to download) This link takes you to the web site of the Institutum Canarium; an international and interdisciplinary research association which is concerned with the history of the civilization of the Canaries. Its rock art and related questions about the history of colonization, language and religion are some of the main fields of research.
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